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Reflections (Jerry Garcia album)

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Reflections
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 15, 1976
StudioHis Masters Wheels, San Francisco
GenreRoots rock, folk rock
LabelRound Records
ProducerJerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia chronology
Old & In the Way
(1975)
Reflections
(1976)
Cats Under the Stars
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB[2]
Music Box[3]
Rolling Stone(not rated)[4]

Reflections is the third solo album by the Grateful Dead's guitarist Jerry Garcia, released in February 1976. Partway through production, Garcia stopped recording with his solo band and brought in the members of the Grateful Dead, who performed on four songs, plus a bonus jam from 2004 release. Three of the four Grateful Dead-performed songs had earlier live debuts: "Comes a Time" (1971), "They Love Each Other" (1973) and "It Must Have Been the Roses" (1974); "Might as Well" entered their rotation in 1976, and "Mission in the Rain" received a select few performances that same year. Most of the songs entered the live rotation of the new Jerry Garcia Band as well.

Track listing

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Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Might As Well"Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter3:54
2."Mission In The Rain"Garcia, Hunter5:04
3."They Love Each Other"Garcia, Hunter4:37
4."I'll Take a Melody"Allen Toussaint9:28
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."It Must Have Been the Roses"Hunter5:29
6."Tore Up Over You"Hank Ballard4:30
7."Catfish John"Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds7:00
8."Comes a Time"Garcia, Hunter6:29

The album was reissued in the All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions box set with the following bonus tracks:

Bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
9."Mystery Train (Studio Jam)"Junior Parker, Sam Phillips5:12
10."All By Myself (Studio Jam)"Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino4:10
11."Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie"Elizabeth Cotten3:12
12."You Win Again"Hank Williams2:25
13."Orpheus"Grateful Dead16:44

Personnel

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Grateful Dead

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on "Might As Well", "They Love Each Other", "It Must Have Been the Roses", "Comes a Time", "Orpheus"

Jerry Garcia Band

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on "Mission in the Rain", "I'll Take a Melody", "Tore Up Over You", "Catfish John", "Mystery Train", "All By Myself", "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie", "You Win Again"

  • Nicky Hopkins – piano
  • Larry Knechtel – Fender Rhodes, piano
  • John Kahn – bass, organ, synthesizer, vibraphone, clavinet
  • Ron Tutt – drums
  • Donna Jean Godchaux, Bob Weir – background vocals (on "I'll Take a Melody" and "Catfish John")
  • Mickey Hart – percussion ("I'll Take a Melody", "Tore up over You", "Catfish John")

Production

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  • Engineer – Dan Healy
  • Production assistants – Steve Brown, Kidd, Ramrod, Steve Parrish
  • Cover – Mike Steirnagel
  • Art direction – Ria Lewerke
  • Second engineers – Rob Taylor, Willi Deenihan, Joel Edelstein
  • Engineer & mix-down engineer – Smiggy

References

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  1. ^ Planer, Lindsay. Reflections at AllMusic
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: G". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Music Box review
  4. ^ Niester, Alan (June 3, 1976). Reflections, Rolling Stone