Music » Live Album Blues Music

Release Date: 1999-08-10, Audio CD, Buddha

Release Date: 1990-10-25, Audio CD, Fantasy

For most of the 1970s, keyboardist Merl Saunders was Jerry Garcia's main musical foil away from his main band, allowing the Grateful Dead icon a chance to really broaden his horizons. Dates from 1973 at San Francisco's Keystone with bassist John Kahn and drummer Bill Vitt have yielded three CDs' worth of material--Volume 1 and Keystone Encores augment this particularly strong set. Here the quartet tackles a pair of rollicking rockabilly numbers, a blues staple, a wonderfully touching, soulful ballad, and the standard "My Funny Valentine," the latter delivered in a rather exploratory style. --Marc Greilsamer

Release Date: 2003-06-17, Audio CD, Memphis Int'l

Release Date: 1999-11-23, Audio CD, Buddha

Release Date: 1998-07-21, Audio CD, Reprise / Wea

Release Date: 2001-09-11, Audio CD, Blue Note Records

Release Date: 1995-04-16, Audio CD, Delmark

Release Date: 1992-09-01, Audio CD, Delta

Release Date: 1993-04-26, Audio CD, Beat Goes Public Bgp