1976-01-07
Jerry Garcia Band rehearsal with James Booker
Club Front (???)

1. Tico Tico (Piano)
2. Tico Tico (Organ Jam)
3. Don't Try to be Your Brother's Keeper
4. Don't Try to be Your Brother's Keeper
5. Something You've Got 
6. Something You've Got 
7. Just A Closer Walk With Thee 
8. Goodnight Irene 
9. United, Our Thing will Stand
10. Cassified
11. Right Back together (Intro)
12. Right Back Together

Just A Closer Walk With Thee

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Comments:

The Jerry List describes this as " A studio rehearsal, most likely at Club Front but not for sure."  It was a rehearsal for some Palo Alto club dates later that week.

James Booker was a one-eyed New Orleans piano wizard in the Professor Longhair style, but much more melodic.  He had some classical training, also played a B-3 and improvised endlessly.  He recorded briefly in the 50s, put out some fantastic Rounder albums in the 70s, had a weekly gig at the Maple Leaf Club in NOLA that resulted in some posthumous releases from soundboard cassettes after his death in about 1980.  He got some well-deserved exposure at Jazz Fest.  Not quite sure how he connected up with Jerry, but I'm sure there's a story there.

This is not the complete rehearsal.  The single disc I've got gets off to a slow start with an instrumental but Jerry and Booker quickly get in the groove right after that.  Booker isn't hesitant to offer Jer suggestions.  Some cassette hiss.  To me, this is the ultimate fly-on-the-wall session featuring two unique musicians. 

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