California-born guitar legend Jerry Garcia epitomised the free-wheeling West
Coast rock scene of the 1970s. A prolific writer/performer Garcia performed
thousands of concerts with The Grateful Dead whilst simultaneously leading the
Jerry Garcia Band. His solo project enabled him to spread his artistic wings
outside the hardcore blues influenced music of The Grateful Dead and he
experimented with folk and country inspired music switching between guitar,
banjo and pedal steel. His early life was marred by the death of his father in a
tragic fishing accident and after a difficult pe...