Jerry Garcia (Legion of Mary) - 1974-12-14&15 Garcia Live Live Vol. 3 (FLAC)

Jerry Garcia (Legion of Mary) - 1974-12-14&15 Garcia Live Live Vol. 3 (FLAC)

Artist: Legion of Mary (Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, John Kahn, Ron Tutt, Martin Fierro)
Title: Garcia Live Vol. 3: Dec 14-15, 1974 Northwest Tour
Year of Release: 2013
Genre: Rock, R&B
Format: FLAC (16bit 88Khz)

The third installment of the Garcia Live series an ongoing concert-recording archive for die-hard Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia Band fans finds over two and a half hours of previously unreleased material from a two-night stand by one of Garcia's more obscure incarnations Legion of Mary. The project quietly grew during a year-long Grateful Dead hiatus in 1974 starting out as a collaboration between Garcia and organist Merl Saunders and quickly expanding to include drummer Ron Tutt, bassist John Kahn and multi-instrumentalist Martin Fierro. Garcia Live, Vol. 3 includes unheard audio from some of the group's first shows and the vibe is more experimental, proggy and coldly adventurous than much of the rest of Garcia's massive ouvre. Beginning with an incredibly jammed-out 18-minute cover of Stevie Wonder's "Boogie on Reggae Woman" things just get wilder from there. A painfully slow reading of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" jazz improvisations and burning, manic renditions of classic soul tunes make up a large patches of the set and things culminate with the unbelievably slow-burning intensity of the almost half-hour-long Saunders tune "Wondering Why" which simmers endlessly in a silent, moody fog without ever reaching a predictable boiling point. With the oceanic amounts of live recordings from Garcia and the Dead even the biggest Deadheads can get bogged down by the repetitive elements of their complete catalog of live shows. Legion of Mary represents some truly reaching and challenging sounds even for the ever-searching Garcia. It's an anomaly and a somewhat lost page in the Garcia history book certainly one of the more interesting releases of its type and a must-hear addition to anyone even remotely interested in the countless hours of Dick's Picks/Live Dead material.


Track List:
101 - Boogie On Reggae Woman
102 - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
103 - Freedom Jazz Dance
104 - Mystery Train
105 - How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
201 - You Can Leave Your Hat On
202 - Neighbor, Neighbor
203 - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
301 - It's No Use
302 - Valdez In The Country
303 - I Second That Emotion
304 - Wondering Why
305 - Roadrunner

Lineup:
Whenever these 5 musicians performed together they billed themselves as the "Legion of Mary".

Jerry Garcia - Guitar, vocals
Merl Saunders - Organ, keys, vocals
John Kahn - Bass
Martin Fierro - Saxophone
Ron Tutt - Drums


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