''Garcia Live Volume Two'' is an album by the

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. It was recorded live on August 5, 1990, at the

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. It was released by ATO Records on June 25, 2013, in two formats – as a two-disc CD, and as a digital download. The lineup of the Jerry Garcia Band for this concert – and for most of the band's shows from 1985 to 1995 – was Jerry Garcia on guitar and vocals,

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on keyboards,

John Kahn John Kahn (June 13, 1947 – May 30, 1996) was an American electric and acoustic bassist. From 1970 to 1995, Kahn was Jerry Garcia's principal musical collaborator outside of the Grateful Dead. Biography John Kahn was born in Memphis, Tennessee ...

on bass,

David Kemper David Law Kemper (born 1947/8 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American rock drummer who was a member of the Jerry Garcia Band (1983–1994) and Bob Dylan's band (1996–2001). He was with the Jerry Garcia Band from 1983 until January 1994, when he w ...

on drums, and Jaclyn LaBranch and Gloria Jones on background vocals.

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sat in on banjo for the first two songs of the second set. Rosebud, one of Garcia's guitars, is depicted on the album cover. ''Garcia Live Volume Two'' was released as a four-disc LP, in a limited edition of 4,000 copies, on November 27, 2020, in conjunction with Record Store Day Black Friday.

Critical reception

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, Fred Thomas said, "Though it was recorded a full decade after the first installment of this ''Dick's Picks''-like concert archive series, ''Vol. 2'' shares a lot of the same songs from the set list of ''Vol. 1''.... though the feel of the set is far more jammy, summery, and laid-back than ''Vol. 1'', which was bluesy and amped by relative Garcia standards. The protracted and stumbly vibe of the set presented here evokes the archetypal languid outdoor concert energy that the Grateful Dead all but defined in their endless touring, and Garcia's takes on roots rock classics by The Band,

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, and later-period Dylan help capture the stoned summertime musical snapshot all the more. What truly sets this volume apart from its predecessor is the guest spot by banjo virtuoso

on two songs..."

Track listing

Disc 1 :''First set:'' #"

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) – 7:33 #"Stop That Train" ( Peter Tosh) – 6:47 #" Forever Young" (

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) – 7:20 #"Run for the Roses" ( Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:50 #"That's What Love Will Make You Do" (James Banks, Eddie Marion, Henderson Thigpen) – 8:06 #"My Sisters and Brothers" (Charles Johnson) – 4:15 #"

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, Dylan) – 8:16 #"Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:34 Disc 2 :''Second set:'' #"Midnight Moonlight" (

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) – 7:26 #"

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" ( Jimmy Cliff) – 10:46 #" And It Stoned Me" (

) – 6:21 #"Waiting for a Miracle" (

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) – 6:43 #"Evangeline" (

David Hidalgo David Kent Hidalgo (born October 6, 1954, in Los Angeles.) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos. Hidalgo frequently plays musical instruments such as accordion, violin, 6-string banjo, cello, requ ...

Louie Pérez Louis Frausto Pérez, Jr. (born January 29, 1953) is an American songwriter, percussionist and guitarist for Los Lobos and Latin Playboys. Pérez started with Los Lobos playing primarily jarana (a small Mexican guitar) and singing. He is one ...

) – 4:22 #"Think" (

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That Lucky Old Sun "That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls around Heaven All Day)" is a 1949 popular song with music by Beasley Smith and words by Haven Gillespie. Background Like " Ol' Man River", its lyrics contrast the toil and intense hardship of the singer's li ...

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Haven Gillespie James Lamont Gillespie (February 6, 1888 – March 14, 1975) pen name Haven Gillespie, was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of "You Go to My Head", "Honey", "By the Sycamore Tree", "That Lucky Old Sun", " Breezi ...

) – 8:22 #"

Tangled Up in Blue "Tangled Up in Blue" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which was released as the opening track on his 15th studio album '' Blood on the Tracks'' (1975). The song was written by Dylan and produced by David Zimmerman, Dylan's bro ...

" (Dylan) – 11:19

Personnel

Jerry Garcia Band * Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals *

– keyboards *

– bass *

– drums *Jaclyn LaBranch – vocals *Gloria Jones – vocals Additional musicians *

– banjo on "Midnight Moonlight", "The Harder They Come" Production *Produced for release by Marc Allan,

Joe Gastwirt Joe Gastwirt is an American audio engineer, known for digitally remastering hundreds of CDs and LPs for famous artists, including the Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, Helen Reddy, Electric Light Orchestra, Jimi Hendrix, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, The B ...

*Original recordings produced by Jerry Garcia *Executive producer: Coran Capshaw *Recording, engineering: John Cutler *Mastering: Joe Gastwirt *Art direction, design, illustration: Ryan Corey *Photography: Susana Millman

References

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