Garcia: Compliments [Original recording remastered]

Jerry Garcia | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 12, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0007OQ6RU
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,043 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Let It Rock

2. When the Hunter Gets Captured By the Game

3. That's What Love Will Make You Do

4. Russian Lullaby

5. Turn on the Bright Lights

6. He Ain't Give You None

7. What Goes Around

8. Let's Spend the Night Togeter

9. Mississippi Moon

10. Midnight Town

11. That's A Touch I Like

12. Road Runner

13. It's Too Late

14. I'll Forget You

15. Tragedy

16. Think

17. I Know It's A Sin

18. Lonesome Town

19. Cardiac Arrest

20. Back Home in Indiana

Editorial Reviews

Jerry covered Van Morrison, Dr. John, the Stones, Chuck Berry and more on this 1974 hit (#49); includes Turn On the Bright Lights; Let's Spend the Night Together; Let It Rock; Midnight Town , and the rest of the LP plus 10 unissued tracks!

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal sound quality - great tunes and versions, June 10, 2005

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Paul A. Scofield (Paris, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garcia: Compliments (Audio CD)

Recorded in LA in February of 1974, released in June, and now, for the first time, remastered in HDCD with 10 additional tracks from the 'Compliments of..' sessions...this, Jerry's second solo release, is vintage Jerry Garcia Band. The cd also includes a well-written and highly informative article, as well as full credits, and a few photos...all very well put together. But, of course, the real reason to get this is for the music: first-rate musicians, recording and production, remarkable and varied material (chosen by John Kahn- not Jerry, surprisingly), Jerry with horn section...? with strings...? doing Motown...Irvin Berlin...? ...and his singing and playing is inspired throughout. A truly classic recording.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Compliments Of Garcia, October 6, 2010

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Dark Star-The Other One (The Bus To Never Ever Land) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garcia: Compliments (Audio CD)

I was pretty young when this album came out and, although my memory is that not too many people were impressed, I loved it. I've always found this album to be very colorful and while not every song works for me, I still have a very found place for this album.

The disc starts off with a rocking Let It Rock just filled with energy. I love the way Jerry does When The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game and the effect Jerry uses during his solo is hot. That's What Love Will Make You Do is a fine song but it's never really been a standout for me. The same can't be said for the beautiful Russian Lullaby which is a song that I always look forward to hearing. Turn On The Bright Lights is fine but doesn't do alot for me. The second side (for those who remember such a thing) beings with a cool cover of Van Morrison's He Ain't Give You None. What Goes Around is a cover of a Doctor John song and it's done very well. I really never cared for this version of Let's Spend The Night Together too much. Peter Rowan's Mississippi Moon is sweet and this is a song that was a wonderful song to go to bed with when I was young. The album's only original song is the ending Midnight Town written by John Kahn and Robert Hunter. I find it VERY unfortunate that this seems to have never been played live (at least no currently existing tape circulates) as it would've also been a very strong song in concert.

The remastered version features quite a few outtakes from the sessions and were songs that were played in Jerry's side projects of the time. Starting with a cool version of Jesse Winchester's That's A Touch I Like. Being a Jesse Winchester fan, I'm quite happy with it. Too bad there wasn't an Every Word You Say. (I'm A) Road Runner is a blast only to be followed by It's Too Late. I'll Forget You and Tragedy were not songs that I was familiar with before this release so it's a pleasure to hear them here. Think was already appearing in Garcia/Saunders set lists while I Know It's A Sin dates back to the earliest of Dead shows covers. I've always liked Lonesome Town while Cardiac Arrest is just the slightest bit of something. The disc ends with a nice Back Home In Indiana.

4.0 out of 5 stars JGB.... JERRY was working overtime, Dude!, July 28, 2011

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David Shanet Clark "The Professor" (Atlanta Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garcia: Compliments (Audio CD)

Imagine you are Jerry Garcia in the early 1970s ... You write and rehearse new songs for Grateful Dead albums and tour the world month after month under the direction of managers like Bill Graham, work your butt off and still get busted, framed and dismissed as worthless by Harry Reasoner (see You Tube). Mickey Hart's dad steals all your money and your Pigpen dies....so what do you do for fun and relaxation? Go into sessions with John Kahn and form a second band! One that plays traditional tin pan alley music and conventional popular tunes and you step in and sing and play guitar over tracks and beds that John Kahn selected and pre-produced. The result is a beautiful piece of music, simple, conventional, unchallenging (by Grateful Dead standards) that shows us still the scope and sweep and richness of Jerry Garcia's musical mastery. Perhaps not as memorable as the Jerry Garcia Band "Cats Under The Stars" with Donna Jean Godchaux's masterpiece vocals, but better than you know, uh "AOXOMOXOA" ... Compliments indeed, this is a cool record of ambitious stylistic changes and vocal guitar mastery.