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Compliments (album)

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Released
  
June 1974

Release date
  
June 1974

Label
  
Grateful Dead Records

Artist
  
Jerry Garcia

Producer
  
John Kahn

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Compliments (1974)
  
Old and in the Way (1975)

Genres
  
Rock music, Folk music, Rock and roll, Roots rock

Similar
  
Run for the Roses, Keystone Encores, Fire Up Plus, Almost Acoustic, Reflections

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Compliments, also known as Garcia, is Jerry Garcia's second solo album, released in 1974. It includes one newly written song by John Kahn and Robert Hunter but is otherwise cover versions. The album peaked at number 49 on the Billboard chart.

Contents

Compliments was reissued on 180-gram green vinyl, in a limited edition of 7,000 copies, as part of Record Store Day on April 18, 2015.

Track listing

  1. "Let It Rock" (Chuck Berry) - 3:12
  2. "When The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" (Smokey Robinson) - 3:46
  3. "That's What Love Will Make You Do" (Henderson Thigpen, James Banks, Eddy Marion) - 3:42
  4. "Russian Lullaby" (Irving Berlin) - 3:04
  5. "Turn On The Bright Lights" (Albert Washington) - 5:04
  6. "He Ain't Give You None" (Van Morrison) - 3:25
  7. "What Goes Around" (Mac Rebbenack) - 3:07
  8. "Let's Spend The Night Together" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) - 3:40
  9. "Mississippi Moon" (Peter Rowan) - 3:06
  10. "Midnight Town" (Robert Hunter, John Kahn) - 3:12

The album was reissued in the All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions box set with the following bonus tracks:

  1. "That's a Touch I Like" (Jesse Winchester) - 3:40
  2. "(I'm a) Road Runner" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) - 4:10
  3. "It's Too Late (She's Gone)" (Chuck Willis) - 4:27
  4. "I'll Forget You" (copyright control) - 3:21
  5. "Tragedy" (Fred Burch, Gerald Nelson) - 3:52
  6. "Think" (Deadric Malone, Jimmy McKracklin) - 4:12
  7. "I Know It's a Sin" (Jimmy Reed) - 2:41
  8. "Lonesome Town" (Thomas Baker Knight) - 6:19
  9. "Cardiac Arrest (Studio Jam)" (Garcia, Kahn, Michael Omartian, Merl Saunders, Ron Tutt) - 1:39
  10. "Back Home in Indiana" (James Hanley, Ballard McDonald) - 7:08

Personnel

  • Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals, classical guitar
  • Arthur Adams - guitar
  • Michael Omartian - piano, tack piano, Fender Rhodes
  • John Kahn - bass, horn arrangement, string arrangement
  • Ron Tutt - drums
  • Merl Saunders - organ
  • Larry Carlton - guitar

    • Additional personnel

  • Bobbye Hall - percussion on tracks 1-3 & 7-8
  • Melvin Moore - trumpet on tracks 3 & 5
  • Gene Connors - trombone on tracks 3 & 5, horn arrangement
  • Jackie Kelso - saxophones on tracks 3 & 5
  • Amos Garrett - trombone on tracks 4 & 7
  • Joel Tepp - clarinet on track 4
  • Richard Greene - violin on tracks 4 & 8
  • Merry Clayton - background vocals on tracks 6 & 10
  • Clydie King - background vocals on tracks 6 & 10
  • Patty - background vocals on tracks 6 & 10
  • Geoff Muldaur - clarinet on track 7
  • Maria Muldaur - background vocals on track 8
  • Ben Benay - rhythm guitar on track 9
  • Tom Rose - clarinet on track 9
  • John Rotella - e flat clarinet on track 9
  • Willie Green - b flat clarinet on track 9
  • Gary Ray - b flat clarinet on track 9
  • Julian Sheer - bass clarinet on track 9
  • Sid Page - violin on tracks 9-10
  • Carl Pedersen - violin on tracks 9-10
  • Nathan Rubin - violin on tracks 9-10
  • Emily van Valkenburg - violin on tracks 9-10
  • Miriam Dye - viola on tracks 9-10
  • Nancy Ellis - viola on tracks 9-10
  • Terry Adams - cello on tracks 9-10
  • Judiyaba - cello on tracks 9-10
  • Ray Siegal - string bass on tracks 9-10
  • Arnie Egilsson - string bass on tracks 9-10
  • Sid Sharp - contractor on tracks 9-10
  • David Nichtern - guitar on track 20
  • David Grisman - mandolin on track 20
  • Vassar Clements - violin on track 20

    • Production

  • Producer - John Kahn
  • Engineer - Ron Malo
  • Production assistants - Richard Loren, Joshua Blardo
  • Equipment - Ramrod, Steve Parrish
  • Cover art - Victor Moscoso

    • Songs

    1Let It Rock3:16
    2When the Hunter Gets Captured by the Game2:50
    3That's What Love Will Make You Do3:52

    References

    Compliments (album) Wikipedia
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