Album Info

Shady Grove

Singer/Songwriter - 1996

Shady Grove was released the year after Jerry Garcia’s death, and it collects outtakes from the albums he recorded with... more

Tracklist

1

Shady Grove

4:19 min
2

Stealin'

3:31 min
3

Off to Sea Once More

5:47 min
4

The Sweet Sunny South

3:24 min
5

Louis Collins

5:57 min
6

Fair Ellender

6:05 min
7

Jackaroo

4:02 min
8

Casey Jones

4:05 min
9

Dreadful Wind and Rain

4:47 min
10

I Truly Understand

3:41 min
11

The Handsome Cabin Boy

6:13 min
12

Whiskey In the Jar

4:15 min
13

Down In the Valley

8:05 min

About Shady Grove

Shady Grove was released the year after Jerry Garcia’s death, and it collects outtakes from the albums he recorded with David Grisman between 1990 and 1993. Consisting of classic folk songs and ballads, Shady Grove works as Grisman’s memorial to his friend, collaborator, and fellow bluegrass disciple. The pair first bonded at a Bill Monroe concert in 1964, and a shared love of Appalachian folk music was the foundation for their thirty-year relationship. In that way, it makes perfect sense for Shady Grove to return to some of the most fundamental ballads from that body of song, including the title track, “Stealin’,” and “Casey Jones” (based on the 1928 Furry Lewis recording, not the more famous Grateful Dead song). In the wake of Garcia’s passing it’s impossible not to feel the elegiac quality in “I Truly Understand” and “Fair Ellender.” A sad, slow reading of “Down In the Valley” closes the collection, and provides benediction for a friendship bonded in music.