Brill excitedly points out, "It is such a joy to 'cover' the greatest cover band of all-time! It's a huge repertoire of classic songs that people of all ages love and appreciate already. At a JGBCB show one can see and hear how much influence Jerry Garcia's music had on this band's members. Soon a local residency led to the development of more and more great tunes from the bank of JGB.
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The local Deadhead community came out in full force, and the band was encouraged to follow up with another show. When the band first came together for a single show December 2012, they did not anticipate the reaction they got. Rackley Davis (Saint Francis) mans the drums. Jerry Hendelberg and Shelly Olin (both of Dubconscious) handle keys and vocals respectively. Ben Jordan (High Strung String Band) plays bass and also sings a handful of the songs. Jonathan Brill (Sweet Knievel, efren) plays the lead, donning guitar and handling most of the lead vocals. Coming together in Athens, GA, the members of JGBCB ('Jerry Garcia Band Cover Band') hail from a diverse group of bands of their own, spanning jam rock, funk, reggae, bluegrass, and more. So it is with a deep love of Jerry Garcia and of the music that he loved and that influenced him, that the members of JGBCB approach this new project. Cale, The Beatles, The Band, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Cliff, Smokey Robinson… the list goes on and on, recalling the names of rock, soul, and folk royalty. While incorporating Garcia's own original songs (some straight from the Grateful Dead catalog and others performed exclusively with Jerry Band), the heavy bulk of the JGB catalog was indeed covers. Even some folks who have never understood the Dead phenomena are able to enjoy Garcia's "side project". The Grateful Dead received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.For lovers of the Grateful Dead, the Jerry Garcia Band has brought as much pleasure to fans for over 20 years. He was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" 2003 cover story. Besides the Dead, he performed in numerous side projects including the Saunders-Garcia Band, the Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, the Garcia/Grisman acoustic duo, Legion of Mary and the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Garcia co-founded the Dead in 1965 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Grateful Dead in 1994. “Friend of the Devil,” from the Dead’s 1970 album American Beauty, is another significant Hunter-Garcia copyright in that it has been covered by Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, The Counting Crows, Elvis Costello, Lyle Lovett and John Mayer.
Library of Congress, which cited it as a national treasure in 1997. 57 on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.” “Truckin’,” too, has been singled out, by the U.S.
The composition is now listed among The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s “500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll,” and is also No. Hunter rejoined Garcia in the Grateful Dead in the fall of 1967, when he wrote the first verse of “Dark Star” at a band rehearsal.
They met in 1961 in Palo Alto (Garcia’s first concert was with Hunter, with each earning $5), and also played in several of Garcia's early bluegrass bands. 1, 1942) first partnered with Hunter in an early 1960s folk duo. Stephen,” “Truckin’,” “Dark Star,” “Friend of the Devil,” “Uncle John’s Band,” “Casey Jones,” “Sugar Magnolia” and “Touch of Grey.” But Garcia (born Aug. Jerry Garcia’s best-known songs for the Grateful Dead were largely co-written with his longtime collaborator Robert Hunter and include such classic Dead fare as “Casey Jones,” “China Cat Sunflower,” “St.
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