On this day in 1974, Garcia (Compliments) hit the shelves—Jerry’s second solo LP, crafted with his close collaborator John Kahn. Kahn described the process in The Golden Road: “I would present him with a bunch of ideas and he’d take the ones he liked and work on those. It was mainly stuff that he wouldn’t ordinarily have thought of, and I think that was part of the challenge for him—to try something that was really new for him. I admired Jerry for being game for that stuff. A lot of performers w
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On this day in 1974, Garcia (Compliments) hit the shelves—Jerry’s second solo LP, crafted with his close collaborator John Kahn. Kahn described the process in The Golden Road: “I would present him with a bunch of ideas and he’d take the ones he liked and work on those. It was mainly stuff that he wouldn’t ordinarily have thought of, and I think that was part of the challenge for him—to try something that was really new for him. I admired Jerry for being game for that stuff. A lot of performers w
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