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The Very Best of Jerry Garcia

Compilation album by

Jerry Garcia

Released

September 26, 2006

Recorded

1971 – 1990

Jerry Garcia chronology

Pure Jerry: Coliseum, Hampton, VA, November 9, 1991
(2006)

The Very Best of Jerry Garcia
(2006)

Live at the Boarding House
(2008)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Music Box	^[2]

The Very Best of Jerry Garcia is a two-CD compilation album. It contains songs, mostly previously released, by Jerry Garcia, the Jerry Garcia Band, the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, Old & In the Way, and Reconstruction. It is meant to showcase Garcia's work outside the Grateful Dead. The first disc contains studio recordings and the second disc contains live recordings. It was released on September 26, 2006.

Some copies of the album include two bonus discs called More of the Best and Twisted Radio Waves.^[3]

The Very Best of Jerry Garcia was released for Record Store Day as a five-disc LP, in a limited edition of 4,000 copies, on September 26, 2020.^[4]

Track listing

Disc one (studio)

From Garcia:

"Deal" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 3:14
"Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:26
"Sugaree" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:54
"Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:10
"The Wheel" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:12

From Compliments:

"Let It Rock" (Chuck Berry) – 3:12
"Russian Lullaby" (Irving Berlin) – 3:04

From Reflections:

"Might as Well" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:54
"Mission in the Rain" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:04
"I'll Take a Melody" (Allen Toussaint) – 9:28

From Cats Under the Stars:

"Rubin and Cherise" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:17
"Cats Under the Stars" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:31
"Rhapsody in Red" (Garcia, Hunter, John Kahn) – 5:11

From Run for the Roses:

"Run for the Roses" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:41
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan) – 7:40
"Without Love" (Clyde McPhatter) – 4:26

Disc two (live)

From Breakdown:

"Catfish John" (Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds) – 4:06

From Almost Acoustic:

"Deep Elem Blues" (traditional) – 6:09
"Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:21

From Garcia Plays Dylan:

"Positively 4th Street" (Dylan) – 10:46

From Pure Jerry: Theatre 1839, July 29 & 30, 1977:

"The Harder They Come" (Jimmy Cliff) – 12:43

From How Sweet It Is:

"Gomorrah" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:37

Previously unreleased performance by Reconstruction on July 8, 1979:

"Dear Prudence" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 11:38

From Jerry Garcia Band:

"Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)" (Dylan) - 7:45
"Evangeline" (David Hidalgo, Louie Perez) – 4:47

From Way After Midnight, the bonus disc for After Midnight: Kean College, 2/28/80:

"Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) - 9:12

Personnel

See individual albums for musical personnel.

Production

Compilation producers – James Austin, Joe Gastwirt, Blair Jackson, Peter McQuaid
Product manager – Jimmy Edwards
Tape research, liner notes – Blair Jackson
Remastering – Joe Gastwirt
Discographical annotation – Reggie Collins
Editorial supervision – Dorothy Stefanski
Art direction, design – Jean Krikorian
Photography – Herb Greene, Jon Sievert, Richard E. Aaron, Dave Patrick
Painting – Jerry Garcia
Project assistance – Karen LeBlanc, James O'Toole

References

^ Jurek, Thom. "The Very Best of Jerry Garcia". AllMusic. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
^ Metzger, John (November 2006). The Very Best of Jerry Garcia, The Music Box
^ "The Very Best of Jerry Garcia". Grateful Dead Family Discography. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
^ "Jerry Garcia: The Very Best of Jerry Garcia". Record Store Day. Retrieved November 29, 2020.

Jerry Garcia

Studio albums

Solo	Garcia Compliments Reflections Run for the Roses
With Howard Wales	Hooteroll?
With Merl Saunders	Heavy Turbulence Fire Up Fire Up Plus
With David Grisman	Jerry Garcia / David Grisman Not for Kids Only Shady Grove So What The Pizza Tapes Grateful Dawg Been All Around This World

Live albums

With Merl Saunders	Live at Keystone Keystone Encores Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 1974 Keystone Companions: The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings Garcia Live Volume Six Garcia Live Volume Nine Garcia Live Volume 12 Garcia Live Volume 15 Garcia Live Volume 18
Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band	Almost Acoustic Ragged but Right
With Howard Wales	Side Trips, Volume One
With David Grisman	Grateful Dawg
Legion Of Mary	Legion of Mary: The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1 Garcia Live Volume Three
With John Kahn	Pure Jerry: Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium, San Rafael, California, February 28, 1986 Garcia Live Volume 14
Pre-Grateful Dead bands	Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions Folk Time Before the Dead

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