Would you like to contribute? Many Deadheads and critics alike feel as if Cats Under the Stars is Garcia's best non-Dead effort, and sadly it would not be reprised on his final studio album to feature the Jerry Garcia Band, Run for the Roses. We did all those tunes on tour right after the album came out, with John and Maria, Keith and Donna and I think Ronnie Tutt was still playing drums with us on those first few tours." It includes only one song that was performed by the Grateful Dead. The album was reissued in the All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions box set with the following bonus tracks: Tracks 9 & 11-13 are from a rehearsal session in November 1976. Just a song of Gomorrah I wonder what they did there Must've been a bad thing To get shot down for Wonder how they blew it up Or if they burned it Find album credit information for Cats Under the Stars - Jerry Garcia on AllMusic Artist Credit Billy Candelario Assistant Engineer Betty Cantor-Jackson Engineer Merry Clayton Song information for Cats Under the Stars - Jerry Garcia Band on AllMusic We currently don't have any genres associated with this song. Many Deadheads and critics alike feel as if Cats Under the Stars is Garcia's best non-Dead effort..."[6]. 4: March 22nd, 1978 finds Garcia and crew performing two remarkably laid-back sets at Veteran's Hall in Sebastopol, California, fresh off a short tour and just prior to the release of Cats Under the Stars, the only studio album that would fall under … All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions is a six-CD box set by Jerry Garcia. Your baby blue eyes that you promised tonight Have got me in a mess Why don't you do right and quit tryin' to It was Jerry Garcia's first album on the Arista label and his first LP using the band name Jerry Garcia Band. Garcia Live Volume Eight is a two-disc live album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It was amazingly, pathetically bad. ", On another occasion in the early '80s he said "Cats Under the Stars is my favorite one. Mar 14, 2020 - Explore b jackson's board "Music and Cats - the world's best medicine hands down" on Pinterest. Elvis Presley recorded this song on June 8, 1970 a the RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. The Bob-Cats was a New Orleans Dixieland-style jazz octet. The albums are remastered for the box set, and include bonus tracks such as alternate versions and outtakes from the album recording sessions. See more ideas about music, cats, music videos. The biblically derived "Gomorrah" recalls the same sympathetic and hapless humanity which likewise embodies compositions such as "Wharf Rat" and "Foolish Heart." Cats Under the Stars is an album by the Jerry Garcia Band. Garcia's longtime collaborator and bassist, John Kahn, also serves up a pair of melodic contributions. The Very Best of Jerry Garcia is a compilation album with recordings by Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, Old & In the Way, Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, and Reconstruction.It is meant to showcase Jerry's non-Grateful Dead work. [3][4]), In the early '90s he still thought well of the album: "As far as I'm concerned Cats Under the Stars is my most successful record — even though it's my least successful record! Jerry Garcia's fourth solo album was the first to be released under the collective title of the Jerry Garcia Band, although the change was primarily in name, as there was little alteration in the personnel between this disc and the non-Grateful Dead tracks from his previous studio effort, Reflections (1976). ", Cats Under the Stars peaked at No. However, unlike his previous effort, Cats Under the Stars contains all new original material. Baby Blue Eyes This song is by Stray Cats and appears on the album Gonna Ball (1981) and on the album Built For Speed (1982). I think I probably gave away more copies than I sold. Credited to the Jerry Garcia Band, the album consisted entirely of original compositions by members of the group, with lyrics by Robert Hunter. For more information, please read our cookie policy.CLOSE [X] Kahn also joins Robert Hunter on the slinky and slightly Caribbean-tinged "Love in the Afternoon." Garcia was also contracted to Arista as a solo artist, resulting in his fourth solo album, Cats Under the Stars, released in April 1978. Garcia explained "[Ron] Tutt liked the drum sound in the room and we hadn't really thought about it before, so we whipped the place into a recording studio. It was released on March 10, 2017. Find similar albums to Cats Under the Stars - Jerry Garcia on AllMusic By using this site, you consent to the use of cookies. These include the brief gospel-flavored interlude "Down Home," featuring some ingenious lead non-verbal vocalizations from Donna Jean Godchaux underneath an equally affective melody. At this concert Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band played saxophone for the entire show. I Walk Through The Fields This song is by The Cats and appears on the album Colour Us Gold (1969). On Allmusic, Lindsay Planer said, "The JGB are hitting on all cylinders, as if this were Garcia's primary focus, rather than a side project. It includes only one song that was performed by the Grateful Dead. But I’ve learned not to invest a lot of importance in 'em, although it's nice to care about your work. Once again Garcia and lyricist Hunter come up aces with some of their most poignant collaborative efforts. It was Jerry Garcia's first album on the Arista label and his first LP using the band name Jerry Garcia Band. The title track, "Cats Under the Stars," is a lilting, up-tempo rocker that was quickly adopted by Garcia fans and Deadheads to refer to the unspoken union connecting themselves with the band. For Timberlake, the stars would align in a cosmic way following his time as a Disney darling. Of arguably equal aesthetic pleasure is Anton Kelley's Egyptian-influenced cover artwork, which would become the subject of many a car window sticker and T-shirt. I've always loved it and it just never went anywhere." His band, The Jerry Garcia Band, was formed in the early 70s and it gave him a chance to perform many other songs and styles of music outside of the Dead. (Although Ron Tutt played on the album, he left the band before the album was released and was replaced by Buzz Buchanan. 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Find album release information for Cats Under the Stars - Jerry Garcia on AllMusic 2017 Cats Under the Stars [Gold Marbled Vinyl] ATO 230801 LP Cats Under the Stars In Cats Under the Stars es un álbum de estudio de la banda estadounidense de folk rock Jerry Garcia Band, publicado a través de Arista Records en 1978, siendo así el único disco estudio acreditado a la banda. Garcia, in the years before his death in 1995, considered this album to be his favorite. Cats Under the Stars is an album by the Jerry Garcia Band. Drawing upon elements of mythology, Shakespeare, and even incorporating some rather Bob Dylan-esque phrasing, Hunter reveals one of his crowning lyrical achievements. Keith and Donna Godchaux, who were at the time members of the Garcia Band, contributed to the music. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United Kingdom and the United States". Read and write album reviews for Cats Under the Stars - Jerry Garcia on AllMusic By using this site, you consent to the use of cookies. The title track, "Cats Under the Stars," is a lilting, up-tempo rocker that was quickly adopted by Garcia fans and Deadheads to refer to the unspoken union connecting themselves with the band. Allmusic ’s Joe Viglione gives this 1979 release Crystal Mansion a somewhat higher rating of 2½ stars and says: “‘ Lonely, Faraway, Missing You ’ is a snappy opener, more appealing than Ambrosia, Player, and the Atlanta Rhythm Section, but falling short of. That was kind of like my baby. In an interview with Joel Selvin he was more succinct; "[Cats Under the Stars] had everything — chops, production, songs. 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