Jerry Garcia as a Side Man

by Janet Ritz

Cross-posted on The Huffington Post

A few years ago, while visiting a friend, San Francisco singer-songwriter and producer, Bill Cutler, I noticed a stack of two inch reels in an open closet and asked him about them.

"Oh," he continued down the hall, "those are some of my songs I recorded with Jerry Garcia."

I looked back at the large stack of large multi-track tapes and then followed my friend down the hall and called after him, "Uh, Bill?"

Now, a few years (and a great deal of work) later, that stack of two inch tapes is about to be released...

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