Pure Jerry: Bay Area 1978
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| Live album by Jerry Garcia Band | ||||
| Released | August 31, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | February – June 1978 | |||
| Genre | Rock, rhythm and blues | |||
| Label | Jerry Made | |||
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Pure Jerry: Bay Area 1978 is a two-CD live album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It contains selections from four concerts performed in the San Francisco Bay Area in February and June 1978. The ninth and last entry in the Pure Jerry series of archival concert albums, it was released on August 31, 2009.
From November 1977 to November 1978, the lineup of the Jerry Garcia Band was the one featured on this recording — Jerry Garcia on guitar and vocals, Keith Godchaux on piano and vocals, Donna Jean Godchaux and Maria Muldaur on vocals, John Kahn on bass, and Buzz Buchanan on drums. Two other albums recorded by this same lineup are Pure Jerry: Warner Theatre, March 18, 1978 and Garcia Live Volume Four.
The concerts excerpted on Pure Jerry: Bay Area 1978 were recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson.
In a 2009 interview, David Lemieux talked about the soon-to-be-released album. "... I had done some tape research a couple years ago on material that I amassed over the years, put it together as stuff, whether or not it's in the Vault or had been floating around as tape trader stuff, but wasn't complete shows. And that's what a lot of this material is. The complete shows are either unknown as far as tapes go and just taking bits and pieces that we all accumulated over the years and putting them together into... I don't know if you heard the Listening Party on the website, there's a couple tunes up there, "Mystery Train" and "The Way You Do the Things You Do", the music is phenomenal. It really is great stuff.... I'm just very happy this music is getting out. I remember hearing this "Lonesome and a Long Way from Home" years ago and being blown away by it. Just amazing. "Let Me Roll It" is just stunning. These are really choice pieces of music. It can truly be considered a great live album."
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