Full name: Garcia: An American Life

Author: Blair Jackson Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780140291995 0140291997

He was there when Dylan went electric, when a generation danced naked at Woodstock, and when Ken Kesey started experimenting with acid. Jerry Garcia was one of the most gifted musicians of all time, and he was a member of one of the most worshiped rock 'n' roll bands in history. Now, Blair Jackson, who covered the Grateful Dead for twenty-five years, gives us an unparalleled portrait of Garcia--the musical genius, the brilliant songwriter, and ultimately, the tortured soul plagued by his own addiction. With more than forty photographs, many of them previously unpublished, Garcia: An American Life is the ultimate tribute to the man who, Bob Dylan said, "had no equal." Similar books: Dark Star by Robert Greenfield Zappa by Barry Miles Nick Drake by Patrick Humphries Bad Seed by Ian Johnston Divided Soul by David Ritz Redemption Song by Chris Salewicz On Some Faraway Beach by David Sheppard 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky by David Henderson Transformer by Victor Bockris Twenty Thousand Roads by David Meyer Home Before Daylight by Steve Parish Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed by Paul Trynka Beethoven by Maynard Solomon Lowside of the Road by Barney Hoskyns Dream Boogie by Peter Guralnick This Is Gonna Hurt by Nikki Sixx White Line Fever by Lemmy Kilmister Light and Shade by Brad Tolinski No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins Mozipedia by Simon Goddard