Jerry Garcia Band Cats Under The Stars (Vinyl, Arista, 1978) ***
Genre: San Francisco pop/rock
Places I remember: Real Groovy Records/ Slow Boat Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Deal (Garcia)
Gear costume: Sugaree, To Lay Me Down (Garcia); Gomorrah (CUTS)
Active compensatory factors: These are both debut albums of a sort - Garcia is Jerry's debut solo album (he plays pretty much everything too) and Cats Under The Stars is the debut (and sole) album by the Jerry Garcia Band (they remained intact as a live only band).
Gear costume: Sugaree, To Lay Me Down (Garcia); Gomorrah (CUTS)
Robert Hunter remains the lyricist - so the thematic unity with The Grateful Dead is maintained.
I prefer the more Dead sounding Garcia than the Jerry Garcia Band, although I may be in the minority on that one. He gets credit though for in each case trying something different.
Where do they all belong? Next up in this genre is Jerry's real band - The Grateful Dead.
Where do they all belong? Next up in this genre is Jerry's real band - The Grateful Dead.
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