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Garcia is Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's first solo album, released in 1972.[1][4]

Garcia
Studio album by Jerry Garcia
Released	January 20, 1972
Recorded	July 1971
Genre	Folk rock, psychedelic rock
Length	40:00
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor and Bill Kreutzmann
Jerry Garcia chronology
Hooteroll? (1971) Garcia (1972) Live at Keystone (1973)
Singles from Garcia
"Sugaree/Eep Hour" Released: 1972 "Sugaree/Deal" Released: 1972 "The Wheel/Deal" Released: 1972

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Village Voice	B+[2]
The Music Box	[3]

Warner Bros. Records offered the Grateful Dead the opportunity to cut their own solo records, and Garcia was released around the same time as Bob Weir's Ace and Mickey Hart's Rolling Thunder. Unlike Ace, which was practically a Grateful Dead album, Garcia was more of a solo effort, as Garcia played almost all the instrumental parts. Six tracks (specifically those coauthored by lyricist Robert Hunter) eventually became standards in the Grateful Dead concert repertoire.

Some reprints of the album are self-released. "Loser" was covered by Cracker on their 1993 album Kerosene Hat.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Deal" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 3:14
2. "Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:26
3. "Sugaree" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:54
4. "Loser" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:10

Side two

1. "Late for Supper" (Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann) – 1:37
2. "Spidergawd" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 3:25
3. "Eep Hour" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 5:08
4. "To Lay Me Down" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:18
5. "An Odd Little Place" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 1:38
6. "The Wheel" (Hunter, Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 4:12

The album was reissued in the All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions box set with the following bonus tracks:

11. "Sugaree" (Alternate Take) (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:13

12. "Loser" (Alternate Take) (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:06

13. "Late For Supper / Spidergawd / Eep Hour" (Alternate Takes) (Garcia, Kreutzmann)

14. "The Wheel" (Alternate Take #1) (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:04

15. "The Wheel" (Alternate Take #2) (Hunter, Garcia) – 2:53

16. "Study for EEP Hour" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 3:30

17. "Dealin' from the Bottom" (Studio Jam) (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 1:25

18. "Study for the Wheel" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 3:22

A vinyl pressing (GDV 4003) was made in West Germany for Grateful Dead Records (48-50 Steele Road, London NW10 7AS) and released in 1988. The tracks are the same as the 1972 original. Inexplicably, the labels on the vinyl record itself read "Grateful Dead - The Wheel" at the top, with "Jerry Garcia" appearing as a subheading at the bottom, below the track lists.[5]

Personnel

Musicians

• Jerry Garcia – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, bass, piano, organ, samples, vocals, mixing
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums

Production

• Bob Matthews – producer, engineer, mixing
• Betty Cantor – producer, engineer, mixing
• Ramrod – producer, engineer, mixing, production assistant
• Bill Kreutzmann – production assistant
• Bob Seidemann – cover photo and album design
• Herb Greene – Garcia photo

References

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