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50 years ago tonight, old & in the way in santa barbara with temporary new fiddler (& straight legend) richard greene, sharing a bill with doc & merle watson (!). great performance, gorgeous recording (by bear?), but tape speeds up & slows down, which sounds like a tik tok trend waiting to happen. torrent: https://shnflac.net/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=c03c558718cf695c52780bfb0a123d0f45b2d0f8
date forensics by @FateMusic: http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2011/05/ln-jg1973-xx-xxoaitw88minssbd.html [1/5]
4/12/73 santa barbara: if i had any doubts about going through the old & in the way tapes, the sweetness of #PeterRowan’s voice dispelled them instantly. 1st circulating versions of garcia’s OLD & IN THE WAY BREAKDOWN & rowan’s PANAMA RED, LONESOME LA COWBOY, LAND OF THE NAVAJO, BLUE MULE, all adding further heft. only circulating THIRSTY IN THE RAIN. PANAMA RED already getting cheers when they start. [2/5]
with greene, proper fiddle instrumentals include SOLDIER’S JOY, TURKEY IN THE STRAW (the only version, played as a semi gag), & ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL. greene takes mic a few times, no sideman. grisman asks, “any requests?” “let garcia sing!” garcia: “you had to go & say something.” but he does sing lead in response, 1st circulating version of traditional PIG IN A PEN (which he sang in the olde days) & a little later carter stanley’s WHITE DOVE. versions of both will be on live album. [3/5]
really, earliest circulating versions for almost everything: traditional WILLOW GARDEN & leon jackson’s LOVE PLEASE COME HOME (learned in the car, sez grisman), johnny bond’s I WONDER WHERE SHE IS TONIGHT, webster bros.’ TIL THE END OF THE WORLD ROLLS AROUND (sung by grisman), stanley bros.’ HOW MOUNTAIN GIRLS CAN LOVE (funnier, given JG’s spouse), mcreynolds bros.’ HARD HEARTED. #garciafreaksunite #jg041273 [4/5]
then, at the end of the tape, what sounds like 5-minute fragment of the band rehearsing BLUE MULE & grisman’s CEDAR HILL in the backyard of garcia’s house in stinson beach, the sound of the pacific in the distance. i think. [5/5]
@bourgwick Great stuff, JJ!
@bourgwick I confess I had never connected MG and "How MGs Can Love" - but it is brilliant. Especially right in this moment when things were good with them.