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Though he was chiefly known as the leader of <a href="spotify:artist:4TMHGUX5WI7OOm53PqSDAT">the Grateful Dead</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3QDaXfnxfQqqJQK5lSdjLN">Jerry Garcia</a> was much more than that. For many, he was the embodiment of the freewheeling artistic spirit of the 1960s. A masterly guitarist and songwriter, and a highly underrated vocalist, <a href="spotify:artist:3QDaXfnxfQqqJQK5lSdjLN">Garcia</a> was a true music lover, involving himself in numerous non-<a href="spotify:artist:4TMHGUX5WI7OOm53PqSDAT">Dead</a> projects over the years. His acoustic band was active during 1987-1988, producing one album during its lifetime and several more afterwards. In 1987, <a href="spotify:artist:3QDaXfnxfQqqJQK5lSdjLN">Garcia</a> was fresh off the double-platinum success of In the Dark and its Top Ten single, "Touch of Grey." After touring to support the album, <a href="spotify:artist:3QDaXfnxfQqqJQK5lSdjLN">Garcia</a> did a special series of shows at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway in New York City, leading an acoustic string band in the first set and <a href="spotify:artist:1YTe4dNIoWX3iHX8H4xVeM">the Jerry Garcia Band</a> in the second. The shows resulted in a live album, Almost Acoustic, credited to the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, featuring David Nelson on guitar, Sandy Rothman on mandolin and Dobro, <a href="spotify:artist:78wcNdGPVbyg6gPtNjjNC3">John Kahn</a> on bass, <a href="spotify:artist:2xLpdXGM9tpEJ5kjAnAMmo">Kenny Kosek</a> on fiddle, and David Kemper on drums. Additional releases after <a href="spotify:artist:3QDaXfnxfQqqJQK5lSdjLN">Garcia</a>'s death in 1995 mined material from the same time period. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
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