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| Reflections | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 12420
Category: Music
Artist: Jerry Garcia
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Label: Rhino / Wea
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 081227950620
EAN: 0081227950620
ASIN: B0007OQ6S4
Release Date: April 12, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Might As Well | | • | Mission in the Rain | | • | They Love Each Other | | • | I'll Take A Melody | | • | It Must Have Been the Roses | | • | Tore Up Over You | | • | Catfish John | | • | Comes A Time | | • | Mystery Train | | • | All by Myself | | • | Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie | | • | You Win Again | | • | Orpheus |
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Album Description
1976's inspired Reflections was split between a handful of covers featuring the Jerry Garcia Band and a pack of Grate Dead-backed, Garcia/Hunter penned tunes including the masterful "Comes A Time." Now sports five bonus tracks including the "Mystery Train" studio jam, and the Dead reveling in an 18-minute-plus take on "Orpheus."
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| Customer Reviews:
Excellent Jerry CD January 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my favorite Jerry solo album! All the songs have a nice flow and more of a jam-style than the heavy production as in some of the other CDs (e.g., Cats).
Jerry gets a great sound from his guitar on "Catfish John"--it sounds like a steel drum. And I love the final lead of "I'll Take a Melody."
You also get some Dead staples: "They Love Each Other", "It Must Have Been the Roses", & "Comes a Time". Not surprising considering the entire band played on many of the songs.
Yeah yeah yeah, tore up. January 30, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
As much fun as the first time I heard the Vinyl so long ago, and a bunch of neat new out takes etc.
Saint Jerry, the canary............................SINGS! November 9, 2005
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
AND PLAYS GUITAR! I don't know, but maybe it was the roses...or the many other transcendant musical fragrances on this recording that inspires this review...But this (half by the whole GD band) hits all the right notes. Jerry leads the way for all contributing members like the Pied Piper, tranferring all the right footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn (Catfish John). Other songbirds, like Donna, add to the wonderful warble of harmony on the way...this is one inspired piece of mid-70's Americana!
The part I like to absorb is the feel of the era - this Blues for Allah/Reflections "post-retirement" period is the BEST in my mind, they were ridin' high it appears to me! I bought this around that time in LP form as a teenager, it always was a favorite (Blues for Allah is one of my fav albums). In this excellent remastered package (by Rhino with extensive liner notes), it is nearly perfect (with 5 generous bonus tracks).
Mystery Train and All by Myself (newly released) studio bonus Jams are very fun, with Jerry seeming playful and pleasantly free-spirited. The rootsy Oh Babe, It Ain't no Lie is like Jerry channelling Blind Lemon Jefferson or something - sweet! What a great human he was...I am humbled by his spirit and pure love of music - THANK YOU JERRY FOR YOUR VISION AND SHARING NATURE! You Win Again (by Hank Williams, believe it or not) is a charming version, more traditional than Europe 72 (never heard before like this - Jerry says "Hell yes, we got that one!") that could still charm the pie from a country casserole queen, despite its city edge). Oh, and ORPHEUS - here is the biggest gold nugget to mine here - 17 minutes or so of SUBLIME, LOST BLUES FOR ALLAH MATERIAL that could be sitting between Soloman's Marbles and The Music Never Stopped.
If this album was only middle of the road for you then or perhaps you missed it, forget that and get it now if you feel like re-exploring some more obscure DEAD material. Come into the Mission in the Rain, YOU MIGHT AS WELL! 78 minutes and 22 seconds of prime Jerry & Co. goodies - ENJOY OFTEN!
This is a great cd !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! September 21, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm not what you'd call a Deadhead, but I've always liked their music, and I've recently developed a real appreciation of all of Garcia's music. In my book, this is his best solo work even though he plays with the Dead a lot here. I didn't know it existed until a few months ago, but it's one of the best CDs out there, even if you're not a Deadhead. The bonus tracks just about equal the length of the original album, but they're great as well. There's a real boogie-woogie tune here called "Tore Up Over You," that along with "I'll Take a Melody" and "Mission in the Rain" I feel fortunate to have the pleasure to be able to now listen to. There's also a sixteen minute or so experimental fusion jam with the Dead that I like and much more. It's just a lot of great music. Highly recommended.
Jerry Garcia at his prime July 4, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This CD, remastered by Rhino with 5 extra cuts sounds incredible. It is almost 80 minutes long. The original album only had 8 songs, but there were some long ones. This title "Reflections" is good. The Dead had taken a year off from touring "1975" and had recorded "Blues For Allah" earlier in the year.
What is neat, is that half of the songs are recorded with the "Dead" and the other half with "The Jerry Garcia Band".
Garcia uses his custom guitar "The Wolf" on this album, some really nice pics and liner notes come with the remastered version. Some standout tracks are "They Love Each Other" which the Dead played for years to come, a reggae type rhytmn with great backup vocals with Bob Weir and Donna. "I'll Take a Melody" is a real slow paced retrospective song with lots of great guitar. Another great ballad is "It Must Have Been The Roses" which ended up in the Dead's set list too.
"Catfish John" is another great reggae type melody with the Dead backing him up. Great lead guitar break, Jerry really puts emotion in his leads and creative tones thru his custom made "Wolf". More tight backup vocals with Bob and Donna.
"Comes A Time" is an emotive hearttaker, incredible guitar tones,(especially on this Rhino version).
"Mystery Train" is a great loosely jammed bonus track. Great version of Hank William's "You Win Again"(where's the guitar break?)
The last track is a blowaway, the first version of "Orpheus" which became a Dead jam staple. This is an incredible Miles Davis type jam. Jerry is incredible, the band is so in synch with each other."Wow" (almost 18 minutes"
If you are a Garcia fan, you have to get this!!!
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