When was birdsong written

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Trading jaunty licks with fiddle player Vassar Clements, he delivered a wry, buoyant performance that achieves the timelessness he was looking for. Garcia and the Dead were always extremely critical of their recorded output; they always felt more comfortable onstage, where songs truly blossomed, than in a studio.

In that regard, Garcia was never more unhappy with a studio performance than he was with this country-blues breakup song. Garcia always put down that performance, too. One of the last and most poignant songs Garcia and Hunter wrote together was this steadfastly contemplative ballad, which gradually built in tension over its 11 minutes. I almost feel in certain respects we were just getting started.

More so than any other single song. It seemed to get my feeling about those times and our place in it. Black Pete is a traditional Dutch bogeyman, but Hunter turned him into an ailing, sympathetic figure — and Garcia merrily took on the role.

The song started as a shuffle when the Dead began playing it live in early , but Garcia toughened it up for his first solo album, with a slide-guitar riff and a rarely heard growl in his vocal. Just the feel. Though never recorded in a studio, it was performed live more than times. The result is one of his most gripping vocal performances.

Guitarist Jerry Garcia, right, and drummer Mickey Hart play music spanning two decades to an enthusiastic crowd of rock and roll fans. Hunter, who lived in the Mission when he was starting out with the Dead, penned the testimonial of a wharf-rat-style down-and-outer whose dreams once rode tall.

In the middle of the extended experimental section of his first solo album, Garcia began jamming on piano, joined by drummer Kreutzmann. Out tumbled this rollicking melody that, luckily, was captured on tape.

The core of this sprawling multipart composition is sung by Weir. But the breathtaking guitar runs that define it are pure Sixties Garcia. For a relatively straightforward boogie, this enduring shuffle equating the symbol of America with showmen like P.

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