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BootinUp

(51,210 posts) Sat Mar 14, 2026, 10:51 PM 4 hrs ago

Whiskey In The Jar - Jerry Garcia & David Grisman Shady Grove 1996

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Whiskey In The Jar - Jerry Garcia & David Grisman Shady Grove 1996 (Original Post) BootinUp 4 hrs ago OP

Thanks! Link below to an article about this great old song. My favorite version is Thin Lizzy's, but I like highplainsdem 3 hrs ago #1

Here's the recording of Jerry teaching the song to the Dead the day after he recorded it with Grisman. highplainsdem 3 hrs ago #2

highplainsdem

(61,672 posts)

1. Thanks! Link below to an article about this great old song. My favorite version is Thin Lizzy's, but I like

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2026, 11:08 PM

3 hrs ago

Jerry's, too.

https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/whiskey-in-the-jar.html

The Dubliners re-recorded “Whiskey in the Jar” — a high-tempo rendition — with The Pogues in 1990. The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia recorded an acoustic version with David Grisman for their folk and country album Shady Grove and the following day he taught it to the Dead while they were in the studio. A recording of their charmingly ragged rehearsal is on the So Many Roads box set, along with a band discussion about it during which Garcia enthuses about this “cool song”.

highplainsdem

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2. Here's the recording of Jerry teaching the song to the Dead the day after he recorded it with Grisman.

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2026, 11:52 PM

3 hrs ago

The article I quoted in reply 1 linked to a video with their "charmingly ragged" (FT's words) rehearsal:

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