Released January 20, 1972 Genre Folk rock
Acid rock Label Warner Bros. | Recorded July 1971 Length 40:00 | |
Producer Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor and Bill Kreutzmann | ||
Garcia is Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's first solo album, released in 1972.
Contents
Warner Bros. Records offered the Grateful Dead the opportunity to cut their own solo records, and Garcia was released around the same time as Bob Weir's Ace and Mickey Hart's Rolling Thunder. Unlike Ace, which was practically a Grateful Dead album, Garcia was more of a solo effort, as Garcia played almost all the instrumental parts. Six tracks (specifically those coauthored by lyricist Robert Hunter) eventually became standards in the Grateful Dead concert repertoire.
Some reprints of the album are self-released. "Loser" was covered by Cracker on their 1993 album Kerosene Hat.
Side one
- "Deal" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 3:14
- "Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:26
- "Sugaree" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:54
- "Loser" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:10
Side two
- "Late For Supper" (Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann) – 1:37
- "Spidergawd" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 3:25
- "Eep Hour" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 5:08
- "To Lay Me Down" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:18
- "An Odd Little Place" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 1:38
- "The Wheel" (Hunter, Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 4:12
The album was reissued in the All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions box set with the following bonus tracks:
11. "Sugaree (Alternate Take)" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:13 12. "Loser (Alternate Take)" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:06 13. "Late For Supper / Spidergawd / Eep Hour (Alternate Takes)" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) 14. "The Wheel (Alternate Take #1)" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:04 15. "The Wheel (Alternate Take #2)" (Hunter, Garcia) – 2:53 16. "Study for EEP Hour" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 3:30 17. "Dealin' from the Bottom (Studio Jam)" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 1:25 18. "Study for the Wheel" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 3:22