''Garcia'' is Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's first solo album, released in 1972.

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offered the Grateful Dead the opportunity to cut their own solo records, and ''Garcia'' was released around the same time as Bob Weir's ''

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'' and Mickey Hart's '' Rolling Thunder''. Unlike ''Ace'', which was practically a Grateful Dead album, ''Garcia'' was more of a solo effort, as Garcia played almost all the instrumental parts. Six tracks (specifically those coauthored by lyricist Robert Hunter) eventually became standards in the Grateful Dead concert repertoire. Some reprints of the album are self-released. "Loser" was covered by Cracker on their 1993 album ''

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''.

Track listing

Side one

#"Deal" ( Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 3:14 #"Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:26 #"

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" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:54 #"Loser" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:10

Side two

"Late for Supper" (Garcia,

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) – 1:37 #"Spidergawd" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 3:25 #"Eep Hour" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 5:08 #"To Lay Me Down" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:18 #"An Odd Little Place" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 1:38 #"The Wheel" (Hunter, Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 4:12 The album was reissued in the '' All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions'' box set with the following bonus tracks: :11. "Sugaree" (Alternate Take) (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:13 :12. "Loser" (Alternate Take) (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:06 :13. "Late For Supper / Spidergawd / Eep Hour" (Alternate Takes) (Garcia, Kreutzmann) :14. "The Wheel" (Alternate Take #1) (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:04 :15. "The Wheel" (Alternate Take #2) (Hunter, Garcia) – 2:53 :16. "Study for EEP Hour" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 3:30 :17. "Dealin' from the Bottom" (Studio Jam) (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 1:25 :18. "Study for the Wheel" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 3:22 A vinyl pressing (GDV 4003) was made in

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for Grateful Dead Records (48-50 Steele Road, London NW10 7AS) and released in 1988. The tracks are the same as the 1972 original. Inexplicably, the labels on the vinyl record itself read "Grateful Dead - The Wheel" at the top, with "Jerry Garcia" appearing as a subheading at the bottom, below the track lists.Copy of the pressing.

Personnel

Musicians

*Jerry Garcia – acoustic guitar,

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, pedal steel guitar, bass,

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, organ, samples,

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, mixing *Bill Kreutzmann – drums

Production

*Bob Matthews – producer, engineer, mixing * Betty Cantor – producer, engineer, mixing *

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– producer, engineer, mixing, production assistant *Bill Kreutzmann – production assistant * Bob Seidemann – cover photo and album design * Herb Greene – Garcia photo

References

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