''Garcia Live Volume One'' is an album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It contains the complete early show and late show performed on March 1, 1980, at the Capitol Theatre in

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. It was released on February 19, 2013, by ATO Records, in two formats – as a three-disc CD, and as a digital download. The album is the first of a series of archival concert releases called ''Garcia Live''. At the time of the Capitol Theatre concerts, the members of the Jerry Garcia Band were

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on guitar and vocals,

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on keyboards and vocals, John Kahn on bass, and Johnny de Foncesca on drums. At the late show, Robert Hunter sat in with the band on two songs that he wrote. The concerts were recorded using a 24-track

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, and the early show was broadcast on WNEW-FM radio. The cover of the album features a drawing of

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, one of Garcia's guitars. ''Garcia Live Volume One'' was released as a five-disc vinyl LP in a limited edition of 5,000 copies on November 28, 2019, as part of Record Store Day Black Friday.

Critical reception

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, Fred Thomas wrote, "Recorded in 1980 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey, the extensive set list includes only a few Garcia/Dead staples ('Deal', ' Sugaree'), but branches out into more eclectic territory with massively jammed-out versions of covers ranging from the

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lyricist Robert Hunter joins the band for an encore including 'Tiger Rose' and 'Promontory Rider'."

Track listing

Disc 1 :''Early show:'' #" Sugaree" (

, Robert Hunter) – 14:33 #" Catfish John" (

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, Allen Reynolds) – 9:56 #" How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" ( Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) – 9:05 #"

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" (

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) – 16:16 Disc 2 :''Early show continued:'' #"Sitting in Limbo" (

, Guillermo Bright-Plummer) – 12:40 #" That's All Right" (

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) – 8:09 #"Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:22 :''Late show:'' #

"Mission in the Rain" (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:50 #"That's What Love Will Make You Do" (Henderson Thigpen, James Banks, Eddy Marion) – 8:56 Disc 3 :''Late show continued:'' #"Russian Lullaby" ( Irving Berlin) – 15:39 #"

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" (Cliff) – 11:47 #"Tiger Rose" (Hunter) – 4:10 #"Promontory Rider" (Hunter) – 6:10 #"Midnight Moonlight" ( Peter Rowan) – 8:39 #"

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" (

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) – 10:22

Personnel

Jerry Garcia Band

– guitar, vocals *

– keyboards, vocals * John Kahn – bass * Johnny de Foncesca – drums

Additional musicians

* Robert Hunter –

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, harmonica, vocals on "Tiger Rose", "Promontory Rider"

Production

*Produced for release by Marc Allan,

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*Original recordings produced by Jerry Garcia *Executive producer: Coran Capshaw *Mixing: Jeff Peters *Mix assistant: Spencer Guerra *Mastering: Joe Gastwirt *Art direction, design, illustration: Ryan Corey *Photography: Bob Minkin, Tom Dunning *Liner notes: David Gans

References

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