Happy Birthday, Jerry Garcia! Plus Cat Songs
Folk Music & Beyond Playlist for July 20, 2024
Hour 1: Happy Birthday, Jerry Garcia!
First Set
Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, “Borneo,” Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, 2:12 Grateful Dead Records
Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, “Boo Break,” Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, 0:52 Grateful Dead Records
Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, “Yes She Do, No She Don’t,” Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, 1:59 Grateful Dead Records
Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, “Band Interview,” Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, 5:43 Grateful Dead Records
Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir, “On the Road Again,” Sing Out! Berkeley Community Theater, April 25, 1981, 3:48 Owsley Stanley Foundation
Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir, “Oh Boy,” Sing Out! Berkeley Community Theater, April 25, 1981, 2:23 Owsley Stanley Foundation
Second Set
Old & in the Way, “Jerry’s Breakdown,” Breakdown, 4:29 Acoustic Disc
Old & in the Way, “Introduction—Peter Rowan,” Breakdown, 1:35 Acoustic Disc
Old & in the Way, “Old & in the Way,” Old & in the Way, 3:00 Round Records
Third Set
Jerry Garcia Band, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” Almost Acoustic, 3:30 Consensus Realist / Grateful Dead Merchandising Inc.
Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, & Tony Rice, “Amazing Grace,” The Pizza Tapes, 4:52 Acoustic Disc
Fourth Set
Jerry Garcia / David Grisman, “Dreadful Wind and Rain,” Shady Grove, 4:46 Acoustic Disc
Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, & Tony Rice, “Little Sadie,” The Pizza Tapes, 3:12 Acoustic Disc
Jerry Garcia / David Grisman, “Grateful Dawg,” Jerry Garcia / David Grisman, 3:39 Acoustic Disc
Fifth Set
Jerry Garcia / David Grisman, “Jenny Jenkins,” Not for Kids Only, 4:22 Acoustic Disc
Jerry Garcia / David Grisman, “Jackaroo,” Shady Grove, 4:02 Acoustic Disc
Folk Music & Beyond Playlist for July 20, 2024
Hour 2: Cat Music with Sandy Miranda
#1 Cats Under the Stars / Jerry Garcia Band is the only recording of The Jerry Garcia Band side project, recorded at the Grateful Dead’s Club Front in San Rafael in 1978 (rolling & loping).
#1a Talking Money Tree / Robert Hunter / Tiger Rose promotional single, 1:06 Round Records
Cat songs and the American Folk Tradition! Redone over and over...
#2 Tom Cat Blues / Cliff Carlisle 1930s / Vol. 1 Folklyric/Arhoolie #103.
Kentucky-born Carlisle helped take regional rural styles national. He loved Hawaiian music & became a popular performer in the South of the 1930s.
#3 The Cat Came Back / Cisco Houston 1961 Song first performed 1893 (scores of recordings from Norman Blake to Garrison Keillor). Great example of THE FOLK PROCESS.
#4 Tom Cat Blues / Jorma Kaukonen / Blue Country Heart 2002 Sony (with Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck) nominated for best trad folk album.
In the early ’60s, Memphis musicians took up the cat theme, then over to Hollywood and Chavez Ravine. The cats and chicks (or kittens) theme continues....
#5 Put Your Cat Clothes On / Carl Perkins 1960 on The Complete Carl Perkins / Sun Records
#6 Stray Cat Strut / The Stray Cats / ’81 Brian Setzer formed rockabilly band.
#7 Three Cool Cats / Ry Cooder and Willie G / Chavez Ravine / Nonesuch
New Set
#8 Cat Food Sandwiches / David Lindley & Wally Ingram / Twango Bango Delux ’98 Ulftone (David passed last year from long covid effects at 78).
#9 Phenomenal Cat / The Kinks with Ray Davies / The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society 1969 Pye Records
#10 Voo Doo / Neville Brothers / Yellow Moon / 1989 BLACK CAT BONE (lucky charm, now fur is used). First song I ever played in my 28 years on KPFA. MD heard it and gave me a show.
New Set
#11 Ry Cooder, “One Cat, One Vote, One Beer,” My Name Is Buddy, 4:15 Nonesuch
#12 Cat lady excerpt from “On the Media” (8/2 program)
Songs about wild cat women and tom cat men from two ends of the musical spectrum!—first featuring SLIDE guitar—and then one about a rampaging lion.
#13 A Wild Cat Woman and a Tom Cat Man / 1930s / Cliff Carlisle Smithsonian ( nice flat picking going on there) slide (1996 reissue by Arhoolie)—$0.99 Smithsonian with 6 pages of notes!
#14 Mbube / Solomon Linda / 1939 At Gallo in South Africa with The Evening Bird Choir Best known African melody in the world. Later known in English as The Lion Sleeps Tonight.