Jerry Garcia News

If you were there in '77 at the Barton Hall show at Cornell when Jerry Garcia absolutely tore up 'St. Stephen', well, that wouldn't hurt.

Stop me if you've memorized the lyrics to "Moonshiner's Dance Part One," "The Spanish Merchant's Daughter" and "Mississippi Boweavil Blues." Originally released in 1952, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music contains dozens of songs, most of which you've probably never heard.

Michael Ballard is too young to remember the Mission Mountain Wood Band's heyday in the 1970s, when five buddies from the University of Montana became the biggest band to ever emerge from the state.

The last day of Voodoo has started out beautiful, brisk and clear. Praise to the loa or whichever trickster gods have been watching over this festival - whose weather mojo Friday and saturday has probably given me a cold - they've decided to let the weekend end on a lovely, sunshiny, and hopefully non-wet note.

Because of what I do for work, I have an understandable interest in newspaper headlines .

IF THE late Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead were alive today to witness the nation's health care reform debate, he'd probably say something like this: 'What a long, strange trip it's been, man.' Wild-eyed, foaming-at-the-mouth citizens shouting down trembling congressmen at town hall meetings, erstwhile vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin ...

In a time of heavy drug use, free love and glorious rock bands, the Grateful Dead emerged as leaders of the hippie movement, both culturally and musically.

In the first few moments of Friday morning, J J Grey was in the middle of a lean, casually nimble guitar solo, sounding a bit like a young Jerry Garcia .

METALLICA Fan's Parents Continue Clinging To Hope As They Search For Their Missing Daughter - Oct.

DC writes regularly on-line and in print about rock and roll, jazz and the blues, composing reviews of cd's, DVD's, live performances, books and films, as well as conducting artist interviews.

A Bay Area synagogue will host a Grateful Dead-infused Shabbat service next week.

Morgan Harrington's parents try to keep her case moving forward. Rex Bowman Gil Harrington stands in her daughter's bedroom in their Roanoke County home.

Deadheads, book your New York City vacation now, as the New York Historical Society has announced that in March 2010, they will mount an exhibition of the Grateful Dead Archive .

"I'm a talker. I've got lots to talk about." When Rupert Boneham, the Hoosier who appeared on CBS' "Survivor" twice and won a million dollars for his efforts, says that, it's an understatement.

Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Jerry Garcia was best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, the rock band for which he served as de facto leader for 30 years, 1965-1995. Concurrently for much of that time, he also led his own Jerry Garcia Band , and he performed and recorded in a variety of configurations and a variety of styles, ...

Bury+Partners Inc. has become a partner in a new civil engineering company and has added executives to further expand into new markets.

The Dark Star Orchestra plays Nov. 24 at the Westcott Theater in Syracuse. The folks in Dark Star Orchestra are justifiably proud about his one.

"When I awoke, the dire wolf, six hundred pounds of sin / Was grinning at my window, all I said was 'Come on in' / Don't murder me, I beg of you don't murder me / Please don't murder me." -"Dire Wolf" by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter I was doing some highway driving last week, and something happened that frightened the dickens out of me.

Amongst a goodly portion of the Grateful Dead 's fan base, the "Barlow-Weir" pairing is just as beloved as the more widely celebrated "Hunter-Garcia" duo.

No, you don't have to be a Jerry Garcia fan to love Rosebud. And save the Orson Welles jokes, too.