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Folk Time showcases Garcia’s folk & bluegrass quartet, the Hart Valley Drifters and holds historical significance as Garcia’s first known studio recording. The Hart Valley Drifters was one of Garcia’s early ensembles put together during the folk revival of the early 1960s, but it was perhaps his first band to present a professional level of musicianship and vocal harmony. The group featured a 20-year old Jerry Garcia on lead vocals, banjo and guitar, Robert Hunter on bass, David Nelson on guitar, Ken Frankel on banjo, fiddle and guitar and Norm Van Maastricht on dobro.
On Folk Time, Garcia can be heard flexing his vocal muscles throughout, taking the lead on every track. He stands out on the Stanley Brothers’ “Roving Gambler” and “Think of What You’ve Done,” and on “Sugar Baby,” he channels the haunting original Dock Boggs’ vocal while covering the Folkways version by Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley. One of Jerry’s early bluegrass guitar heroes, Carter Stanley, supplies the influence for his guitar The collection winds up with a stunning performance of Doc Watson’s take on the Mississippi Sheiks’ “Sitting On Top of The World” It’s a simple version consisting only of Frankel’s guitar and Garcia’s voice that leaves the hairs standing on the back of your neck. It’s a departure from the recording that ended up on their debut album, but the roots of the Grateful Dead are clearly marked.
(The performance heard on Folk Time is also featured on Before the Dead.)
For more info and the track listing, click Details below.
On Folk Time, Garcia can be heard flexing his vocal muscles throughout, taking the lead on every track. He stands out on the Stanley Brothers’ “Roving Gambler” and “Think of What You’ve Done,” and on “Sugar Baby,” he channels the haunting original Dock Boggs’ vocal while covering the Folkways version by Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley. One of Jerry’s early bluegrass guitar heroes, Carter Stanley, supplies the influence for his guitar The collection winds up with a stunning performance of Doc Watson’s take on the Mississippi Sheiks’ “Sitting On Top of The World” It’s a simple version consisting only of Frankel’s guitar and Garcia’s voice that leaves the hairs standing on the back of your neck. It’s a departure from the recording that ended up on their debut album, but the roots of the Grateful Dead are clearly marked.
(The performance heard on Folk Time is also featured on Before the Dead.)
For more info and the track listing, click Details below.
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This previously uncirculated recording was made in the fall of 1962 at Stanford University’s KZSU radio station Studio A by Ted Claire. Claire organized the session to capture material for his radio programs Folk Time, the namesake of this release, and Flint Hill Special. The Folk Time session captures an early moment in Garcia’s career when he’d become well educated in American roots music, and was becoming a self-taught multi-instrumentalist. Years before Garcia and Hunter would form their iconic songwriting partnership, and Nelson would co-found New Riders of the Purple Sage, the quartet honed their three-part harmonies and honored the folk revival tradition by performing their repertoire as authentically as possible.
Tracklist:
1. Band Introductions
2. “Roving Gambler”
3. “Ground Speed”
4. “Pig In A Pen”
5. “Standing In The Need Of Prayer”
6. “Flint Hill Special”
7. “Nine Pound Hammer”
8. “Handsome Molly”
9. “Clinch Mountain Backstep”
10. “Think of What You’ve Done”
11. “Cripple Creek”
12. “All The Good Times Have Past And Gone”
13. “Billy Grimes, The Rover”
14. “Paddy On The Turnpike (Boys, My Money’s All Gone)”
15. “Run Mountain”
16. “Sugar Baby”
17. “Sitting On Top Of The World”
Tracklist:
1. Band Introductions
2. “Roving Gambler”
3. “Ground Speed”
4. “Pig In A Pen”
5. “Standing In The Need Of Prayer”
6. “Flint Hill Special”
7. “Nine Pound Hammer”
8. “Handsome Molly”
9. “Clinch Mountain Backstep”
10. “Think of What You’ve Done”
11. “Cripple Creek”
12. “All The Good Times Have Past And Gone”
13. “Billy Grimes, The Rover”
14. “Paddy On The Turnpike (Boys, My Money’s All Gone)”
15. “Run Mountain”
16. “Sugar Baby”
17. “Sitting On Top Of The World”
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Customer Reviews
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Randall Z.November 18, 2022Easy listening tunes! Clear early recording. Jerry leading the way even in his beginnings. Talented, tight band. Wonderful! TY
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Christopher SeiffeOctober 27, 2022Wonderful and illuminating. Offers a good foundational understanding of Jerry’s playing.
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kenOctober 27, 2022A nice addition to the collection. Fun to hear thes guys exploring musical styles like bluegrass. Its interesting to play some of these cuts back to back with the bela fleck cuts from volume 2. I’ve seen Bela Fleck’’s My Bluegass Heart tour and Jerry could have fit right in. It would have been a fabulous experience to see Jerry play a guest gig with them. He was talented enough to complement them.
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Richard SchroepferOctober 27, 2022This is a great album for the archives of Jerry, I always new that Old And In The Way was not the only recording of Bluegrass he made.
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BrionAugust 19, 2022Great CD. It is nice to have music from before the Dead. I just can't put it away.
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JimDecember 27, 2017Great album. They all sound so young...
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