Song of the Day - Dear Mr. Fantasy - Traffic Feat. Jerry Garcia (1994)

Song of the Day - Summertime - Janis Joplin

Song of the Day - Box of Rain - Dead and Company (2016)

Bob Dylan- A Hard Rains Gonna Fall (1963)

"Where have you been my darling young one..."

"I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it..."

Song of the Day - Easy Wind - Dead and Company (2016)

Can't get enough...

Song of the Day - Only A River - Bob Weir (2016)

Song of the Day - Knocking on Heaven's Door - Dead and Company (2016)

Can't stop listening!

WOW! Inspirational

-Taylor Swift

HAHAHAHAH It is appalling to me just how bad popular music has become. The fact that people consider Taylor Swift an "artist" is preposterous! Just because you write your own terrible song, doesn't make it NOT a terrible song...so angering.

BUT in an attempt not to bash what I hate, and to promote what I love...let's listen to a beautiful, talented songwriting female to wash this disgusting taste out of our mouths ;)

  

Carole King - Been to Canaan

I Need A Miracle - Grateful Dead (1978)

Don't we all??

"Be open to allowing God to help you resolve your challenges in ways that will surprise you...expect a miracle!" - Doreen Virtue

Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice

One of the best songs of all time -

Song of the Day - Take the Box - Amy Winehouse (2004)

Amazing.

Song of the Day - Mama Said - The Shirelles (1961)

Song of the Day - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Dead and Company (2016)

Missing the Summer Tour... still crossing fingers for a Fall Tour 2016 :) PS LOVE the Europe '72 shirt!

Song of the Day - Spanish Harlem Incident - Bob Dylan (1964)

This Day in Music History - August 10th

1970 Simon and Garfunkels album Bridge Over Troubled Water was at No.1 on the UK album chart, The Beatles were at No.2 with 'Let It Be' and Bob Dylan was at No.3 with 'Self Portrait.'

Look how good popular music used to be....SIGH Bridge over Troubled Water-

MOST Powerful Quotes about the late, great Jerry Garica <3

“There’s no way to measure his greatness or magnitude as a person or as a player. He really had no equal. His playing was moody, awesome, sophisticated, hypnotic, and subtle. There’s no way to convey the loss.” - BOB DYLAN

“I feel your silent laughter at sentiments so bold, that date to step across the line to tell what must be told, so I’ll just say I love you, which I never said before, and let it go at that old friend the rest you may ignore.”- ROBERT HUNTER

“I see him in my dreams all the time. I hear him when I’m on stage. I would say I can’t talk to him, but I can. I don’t miss him. He’s here. He’s with me.” - BOB WEIR

“Jerry had this ineffable sweetness and vulnerability, even when he was playing his wildest up-in-the-spheres stuff. It’s something you don’t really see that often in musicians working in this field. We never really talked about this, because it was so obvious to all of us, but he knew he wasn’t making that music; it was like he was just up there quoting or transcribing what it was that was being given to him or coming through him, as we all were in the best moments. That’s the goal that we strive for, that we still strive for.” - PHIL LESH

“Where do you begin? There’s so much to say about him. He was a benign, lovable guy and he was also a magic man, a shaman. There was a feeling of going out in the world with kindness that Jerry represented. That shines through beyond all the other stuff.” - MICKEY HART

“Jerry was the best musician I ever played with. He was 100 percent music. Every pore, every bit of his body, every molecule, was music, whether he liked it or not. He was like a Mile Davis or a Coltrane or somebody like that – just completely locked into it. I always felt that I could hear in his music him talking about things at a much deeper level than what appeared on the surface. There aren’t many musicians who have that gift – to be really profound.” - BILL KREUTZMANN

“Something that immediately comes to mind when I think of Jerry is his almost total aversion to self-aggrandizement of any kind.”- GARY LAMBERT

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This Day in Music History - August 9th

1995 Just 8 days after his 53rd birthday, Jerry Garcia was found dead in his room at a rehabilitation center after suffering a heart attack.

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Fare you well, my honey.

Fare you well, my only true love.

All the birds that were singing

Have flown, except you alone...

This Day in Music History - August 8th

1970, Janis Joplin bought a headstone for the grave of her greatest influence Bessie Smith at the Mont Lawn Cemetery in Philadelphia. Blues singer Smith died in 1937 after being refused admission to a whites only hospital.

"To Jerry: what a light you are that I could bask in your shadow." - John Mayer

John Mayer Talks Magical Dead & Company Tour & Sends Respects to Jerry Garcia

"This tour was magical. This band flourished in so many ways. To learn each others' moves as people and musicians, so as to support each other on stage and off made every night a beautiful adventure. I grew up a lone wolf in a bedroom practicing my guitar, and all I ever really craved was community. The community I feel now between my brothers and sisters in this band and crew, and the connection between everyone in the audience from the front row to the back, to those who listened from couches and cars, to those who come up to me and say more with their eyes than their words in their attempt to tell me what this means to them - I will never forget it, because I will never stop feeling it. We're together now. I'm honored to be one of many musicians in the larger community of the GDEU (Grateful Dead Extended Universe.) And it must be said - to Jerry: what a light you are that I could bask in your shadow. ❤️⚡️🌹💀 love you all.." -John Mayer

This Day in Music History - August 3rd

2002, After an absence of 37 years, Bob Dylan returned to the Newport Folk Festival (now known as the Apple and Eve Newport Folk Festival) where he performed a 2 hour show of 19 songs, wearing a false beard and a wig. Songs played included: Subterranean Homesick Blues, 'Desolation Row', 'Positively 4th Street', 'The Wicked Messenger', 'Like A Rolling Stone' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man'.

This Day in Music History - Hello, I Love You (1968)

1968, The Doors started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Hello I Love You', the group's second US No.1. The Doors scored 8 top 40 US hits from 67-71.

Happy Birthday Jerry Garcia!!!

1942 Jerry Garcia was born this day! Thank you for the music, the inspiration, the light & the joy that still lights up my world all these years later...