July 4th Weekend 2015 with Jerry Garcia & the Grateful Dead
For 50 years in various incarnations the Grateful Dead have held forth as America’s iconic roots rock, jamming tour band. This July 4th, as Dead fans gather for a final series of concerts in Chicago, we revisit a classic American Routes program that featured the musical sources of the Dead in blues, old-time country, folk and jazz. We also reprise an in-depth interview that Nick did as part of an oral history with the late guitarist and bandleader Jerry Garcia at the mithsonian Institution. Garcia often presented himself as an alternative huckster version of Uncle Sam complete with a stars and stripes top hat. His Americanist vision was grounded in the diversity of traditional music that he loved, electrified and improvised upon. In addition to Jerry and a wide range of music, the Dead Heads also have their say about the nature of a Grateful Dead live show. So come hear “Uncle John’s Band!” Join us as we go “Truckin’,” and May the Fourth Be With You!
HOUR ONE
Big Railroad Blues Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers
Big Railroad Blues Cannon's Jug Stompers
Ruckus Juice and Chitlins - the Great Jug Bands - Classic Recordings of the 1920's and 30's Vol. 1, Yazoo
You Win Again Hank Williams
The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury
You Win Again Grateful Dead
Europe '72 Vol. 1, Warner Brothers
CLIP: Deadheads
Truckin' Wailing Souls
Fire on the Mountain 2... Reggae Celebrates the Grateful Dead, Pow-Wow
Instrumental: Truckin' The Truckin' Telecasters
Pickin' On the Grateful Dead... A Tribute, CMH Records
Interview: Jerry Garcia pt. 1
Ramblin' Ornette Coleman
Beauty is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, Rhino
Turn on Your Love Light Bobby 'Blue' Bland
Turn on Your Love Light, MCA/ Duke
Instrumental: Turn On Your Love Light Grateful Dead
Fillmore East 2-11-69, Arista Records
CLIP: Jerry Garcia on Buck Owens
My Heart Skips a Beat Buck Owens
Together Again/ My Heart Skips a Beat, Sundazed
Glendale Train New Riders of the Purple Sage
New Riders of the Purple Sage, Columbia
Red Rooster Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf, Chess/ MCA
New Speedway Boogie Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers
End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording
HOUR TWO
St. Stephen Grateful Dead
Fillmore East 2-11-69, Arista
CLIP: Security Guard
I Fought the Law Bobby Fuller Four
Hot Rod Rebels, The Right Stuff
Beat it On Down the Line Jesse Fuller
Lone Cat Sings and Plays Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals and Blues, Fantasy
Beat it On the Down the Line Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers
Instrumental: Friend of the Devil Pickin' On the Grateful Dead
Pickin' On the Grateful Dead... A Tribute, CMH
Interview: Jerry Garcia pt 2
Acadian Two Step Coteau
45 rpm, Booray
Bertha Los Lobos
Deadicated, Arista
Instrumental: Hiko-Hiko Donald Harrison
Indian Blues, Candid
16th St. Baptist Church Branford Marsalis
Requiem, Columbia
Iko-Iko Young Guardians of the Flame
Young Guardians of the Flame, First Tribe Records
Ripple Jane's Addiction
Deadicated, Arista
Uncle John's Band Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers
End Bed: Morning Dew Grateful Dead
Europe '72, Warner Brothers