Before The Dead

Jerry Garcia

ATO Records

A 4 CD or 5 LP set of music by various groups, all featuring Jerry Garcia, recorded during the years 1961 to 1964. The music is mainly from live performances captured on reel-to-reel tape.

Tracks

CD 1:

Bob and Jerry (May 26, 1961):


• Santy Anno (Traditional)
• I Got a Home in That Rock (Traditional)
• Oh, Mary Don't You Weep (Traditional)
• All My Trials (Traditional)
• I Was Born Ten Thousand Years Ago (Verner / Clyde)
• Blow the Candles Out (Traditional)
• Rake and a Rambling Boy (Traditional)
• Trouble in Mind (Jones)
  
  Jerry Garcia, Marshall Leicester, and Robert Hunter (July 1961):
  
  
• Brown's Ferry Blues (Delmore / Delmore)
• Jesse James (Traditional)
  
  Jerry Garcia and unknown musician (summer or fall 1961):
  
  
• Down in the Willow Garden (Traditional)
• Long Lonesome Road (Traditional)
• Railroad Bill (Traditional)
• The Wagoner's Lad (Traditional)
• Katie Cruel (Traditional)

Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers (June 11, 1962):


• Cannonball Blues (Carter)
• Little Birdie (Traditional)
• Sally Goodin (Traditional)
• Hold That Woodpile Down (Harrigan / Hart)
• Legend of the Johnson Boys (Traditional)
• Shady Grove (Traditional)
• Sweet Sunny South (Traditional)
• Man of Constant Sorrow (Traditional)
  
  Hart Valley Drifters (fall 1962):
  
  
• Band introductions
• Roving Gambler (Traditional)
• Ground Speed (Scruggs)
• Pig in a Pen (Traditional)
• Standing in the Need of a Prayer (Traditional)
• Flint Hill Special (Scruggs)
• Nine Pound Hammer (Traditional)
• Handsome Molly (Grayson / Whitter)
• Clinch Mountain Backstep (Stanley / Rakes)
• Think of What You've Done (Stanley)
• Cripple Creek (Traditional)
• All the Good Times Have Past and Gone (Traditional)
• Billy Grimes, the Rover (Traditional)
• Paddy on the Turnpike (Traditional)
• Run Mountain (Mainer)
• Sugar Baby (Boggs)
• Sitting on Top of the World (Vinson / Carter)
  
  

The Wildwood Boys (February 23, 1963):


• Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Carter / Young)
• Jerry's Breakdown (Garcia)
• Standing in the Need of Prayer (Traditional)
• Mule Skinner Blues (Rodgers / Vaughn)
• Saturday Night Shuffle (Travis)
• Pike County Breakdown (Jones)
• My Little Sparrow (Traditional)
• We Shall Not Be Moved (Traditional)
  
  Jerry and Sara (May 4, 1963):
  
  
• Deep Elem Blues (Shelton / Shelton)
• Will the Weaver (Traditional)
• I Truly Understand (Traditional)
• Long Black Veil (Dill / Wilkin)
• The Man That Wrote That Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man (Traditional)
• Foggy Mountain Top (Carter)

Black Mountain Boys (fall 1963):


• Barefoot Nellie (Reno / Davis)
• She's More to Be Pitied (Stanley)
• Noah's Breakdown (Crase)
• Who Will Sing for Me? (Farris)
  
  Black Mountain Boys (January 10, 1964):
  
  
• Salt Creek (Keith / Monroe)
• Monroe's Hornpipe (Jody's Hornpipe) (Monroe)
• Rosa Lee McFall (Monroe)
• John Hardy (Traditional)
  
  Black Mountain Boys (March 6, 1964):
  
  
• Katie Kline (Traditional)
• Walkin' the Dog (Grimsley / Grimsley)
• Paddy on the Turnpike (Traditional)
• Love and Wealth (Louvin / Louvin)
• Sourwood Mountain (Traditional)
• If I Lose (Stanley)
• Homestead on the Farm (Carter)
• Stony Creek (McReynolds / McReynolds)
• Salty Dog Blues (Morris / Morris)
• Love Please Come Home (Jackson)
• Make Me a Pallet on the Floor (Traditional)
• Darlin' Allalee (Traditional)
• In the Pines (Bryant / Davis / McMichen)
• Raw Hide (Monroe)
• Black Mountain Rag (Traditional)
• True Life Blues (Monroe)
• Medley: Devil's Dream / Sailor's Hornpipe (Traditional)
  
  Black Mountain Boys (spring 1964):
  
  
• Drink Up and Go Home (Hart)
  
  Asphalt Jungle Mountain Boys (summer 1964):
  
  
• These Men of God (Ellis / Williams / Williams)
• Roll On Buddy (Traditional)
• Goodbye Old Pal (Monroe)
• Back Up and Push (Tradional)

The musicians in each of the groups in this collection are as follows.

Bob and Jerry:

• Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
• Robert Hunter - vocals

• Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
• Robert Hunter - bass, mandolin
• Marshall Leicester - banjo, guitar, vocals

• Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
• Unknown musician - bass

• Jerry Garcia - banjo, guitar, vocals
• Dick Arnold - fiddle, vocals
• Marshall Leicester - banjo, guitar, vocals

• Jerry Garcia - banjo, guitar, vocals
• Ken Frankel - banjo, fiddle, guitar
• Robert Hunter - bass, vocals
• Norm Van Maastricht - dobro
• David Nelson - guitar, vocals

• Jerry Garcia - banjo, guitar, vocals
• Robert Hunter - mandolin, vocals
• David Nelson - guitar, vocals
• Norm Van Maastricht - bass, guitar, vocals

• Jerry Garcia - banjo, guitar, mandolin, vocals
• Sara Ruppenthal Garcia - guitar, vocals

• Jerry Garcia - banjo, guitar, vocals
• Robert Hunter - bass, vocals
• David Nelson - mandolin, vocals
• Eric Thompson - guitar, vocals

• Jerry Garcia - banjo, guitar, vocals
• Geoff Levin - bass
• David Nelson - mandolin, vocals
• Sandy Rothman - guitar, vocals

• Jerry Garcia - banjo, vocals
• David Nelson - mandolin, vocals
• Sandy Rothman - guitar, vocals

• Jerry Garcia - banjo, vocals
• Jody Stecher - mandolin, vocals
• Eric Thompson - guitar
• Herb Pedersen - vocals on "These Men of God"
• Butch Waller - vocals on "These Men of God"

• Producer - Dennis McNally, Brian Miksis
• Mastering - Fred Kevorkian
• Art direction, design - Frank Harkins
• Liner notes - Dennis McNally, Brian Miksis, Neil Rosenberg, Sara Ruppenthal Katz, Stu Goldman, Sandy Rothman
• Painting of Jerry Garcia - Brigid Meier

The Hart Valley Drifters set on CD 2 was originally released as;

• Folk Time, Hart Valley Drifters, 2016