''Compliments'', also known as ''Garcia'', is

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's second solo album, released in 1974. It includes one newly written song by John Kahn and Robert Hunter but is otherwise composed of

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s. The album peaked at number 49 on the ''Billboard'' chart. ''Compliments'' was reissued on 180-gram green vinyl, in a limited edition of 7,000 copies, as part of

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on April 18, 2015.''Compliments''
Record Store Day 2015. Retrieved March 11, 2015.

Track listing

#" Let It Rock" ( Chuck Berry) – 3:12 #" When The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" (

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) – 3:46 #"That's What Love Will Make You Do" (Henderson Thigpen, James Banks, Eddy Marion) – 3:42 #"Russian Lullaby" ( Irving Berlin) – 3:04 #"Turn On The Bright Lights" (Albert Washington) – 5:04 #"He Ain't Give You None" (

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) – 3:25 #"What Goes Around" ( Mac Rebennack) – 3:07 #" Let's Spend The Night Together" (

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, Keith Richards) – 3:40 #"Mississippi Moon" ( Peter Rowan) – 3:06 #"Midnight Town" ( Robert Hunter, John Kahn) – 3:12 The album was reissued in the '' All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions'' box set with the following bonus tracks:

"That's a Touch I Like" ( Jesse Winchester) – 3:40
"(I'm a) Road Runner" ( Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) – 4:10
" It's Too Late (She's Gone)" ( Chuck Willis) – 4:27
"I'll Forget You" (copyright control) – 3:21
"Tragedy" (Fred Burch, Gerald Nelson) – 3:52
"Think" ( Deadric Malone, Jimmy McKracklin) – 4:12
"I Know It's a Sin" ( Jimmy Reed) – 2:41
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" (Thomas Baker Knight) – 6:19
"Cardiac Arrest (Studio Jam)" (Garcia, Kahn,
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, Merl Saunders, Ron Tutt) – 1:39
"Back Home in Indiana" (James Hanley, Ballard McDonald) – 7:08

Personnel

Musicians

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

classical guitar The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor o ...

*Arthur Adams – guitar *

Michael Omartian Michael Omartian (born November 26, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, keyboardist, and music producer. He produced number-one records in three consecutive decades. He has earned 11 Grammy Awards nominations and won three. He sp ...

–

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

, tack piano,

Fender Rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

*John Kahn –

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gui ...

, horn arrangement, string arrangement * Ron Tutt –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

* Merl Saunders –

organ Organ may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a part of an organism Musical instruments * Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone ** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument ** Hammond ...

Larry Carlton Larry Eugene Carlton (born March 2, 1948) is an American guitarist who built his career as a studio musician in the 1970s and 1980s for acts such as Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell. He has participated in thousands of recording sessions, recorde ...

– guitar

Production

*John Kahn – producer *Ron Malo – engineer *Richard Loren – production assistant *Joshua Blardo – production assistant *Ramrod – equipment *Steve Parrish – equipment * Victor Moscoso – cover artwork

Additional personnel

* Bobbye Hall –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

on tracks 1-3 and 7-8 *Melvin Moore –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

on tracks 3 and 5 *Gene Connors –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

on tracks 3 and 5, horn arrangement *Jackie Kelso –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

s on tracks 3 and 5 *

Amos Garrett Amos Garrett (born November 26, 1941) is an American-Canadian blues and blues-rock musician, guitarist, singer, composer, and musical arranger. He has written instructional books about music and guitar. Garrett holds dual citizenship and was rai ...

– trombone on tracks 4 and 7 *

Joel Tepp Joel Tepp is an American multi-instrumentalist (guitar, harmonica, clarinet) with a 40-year history in live and recorded music. He was born in 1948. He majored in criminology at UC Berkeley, where he was a gymnast, a gold medalist on the pomme ...

–

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

on track 4 *Richard Greene –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

on tracks 4 and 8 * Merry Clayton – background vocals on tracks 6 and 10 * Clydie King – background vocals on tracks 6 and 10 *Patty – background vocals on tracks 6 and 10 *

Geoff Muldaur Geoff Muldaur (born August 12, 1943) is an American active singer, guitarist and composer, who was a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days. Career Having established a reputation with the Kwe ...

– clarinet on track 7 *

Maria Muldaur Maria Muldaur (born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato; September 12, 1942) is an American folk and blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. She recorded the 1973 hit song "Midnight at the Oasis" and has ...

– background vocals on track 8 *Ben Benay –

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar ...

on track 9 *Tom Rose – clarinet on track 9 *John Rotella – e flat clarinet on track 9 *Willie Green – b flat clarinet on track 9 *Gary Ray – b flat clarinet on track 9 *Julian Sheer – bass clarinet on track 9 * Sid Page – violin on tracks 9-10 *Carl Pedersen – violin on tracks 9-10 *Nathan Rubin – violin on tracks 9-10 *Emily van Valkenburg – violin on tracks 9-10 *Miriam Dye –

viola The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

on tracks 9-10 *Nancy Ellis – viola on tracks 9-10 *Terry Adams –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

on tracks 9-10 *Judiyaba – cello on tracks 9-10 *Ray Siegal – string bass on tracks 9-10 *Arnie Egilsson – string bass on tracks 9-10 *Sid Sharp – contractor on tracks 9-10 *David Nichtern – guitar on track 20 *

David Grisman David Grisman (born March 23, 1945) is an American mandolinist. His music combines bluegrass, folk, and jazz in a genre he calls "Dawg music". He founded the record label Acoustic Disc, which issues his recordings and those of other acoustic mu ...

–

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

on track 20 * Vassar Clements – violin on track 20

References

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