Ragged but Right

Released

November 16, 2010

Recorded

October – December, 1987

Jerry Made

Pure Jerry: Lunt-Fontanne, New York City, The Best of the Rest, October 15–30, 1987
(2004)

Ragged but Right
(2010)

On Broadway: Act One – October 28th, 1987
(2015)

Let It Rock: The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 2
(2009)

Ragged but Right
(2010)

Keystone Companions: The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings
(2012)

Ragged but Right is the second live album by the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band. It was recorded in October and December 1987 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City, the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, and the Warfield Theater in San Francisco. It was released on November 16, 2010, twenty-two years after the band's first album, Almost Acoustic.

The Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band existed from the summer of 1987 to the summer of 1988, and played fewer than 30 concerts. Led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, the band included three members of the 1964 bluegrass band the Black Mountain Boys — Garcia on guitar and vocals, David Nelson of the New Riders of the Purple Sage on guitar and vocals, and Sandy Rothman on mandolin, dobro, banjo, and vocals — plus long-time Garcia collaborator John Kahn on acoustic bass, Kenny Kosek on fiddle, and David Kemper on snare drum.

Three other albums contain music by the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band as well as by the electric Jerry Garcia Band. They are Pure Jerry: Lunt-Fontanne, New York City, October 31, 1987, with two out of four CDs by the Acoustic Band, Pure Jerry: Lunt-Fontanne, New York City, The Best of the Rest, October 15–30, 1987, with one out of three CDs by the Acoustic Band, and On Broadway: Act One – October 28th, 1987, with two out of three CDs by the unplugged ensemble.