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Jerry Garcia
Shining Star
Genres: Country, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock

Track Listings (7) - Disc #1
1. Shining Star - Jerry Garcia, Graham
2. He Ain't Give You None - Jerry Garcia, Morrison, Van
3. Second That Emotion - Jerry Garcia, Cleveland
4. Money Honey - Jerry Garcia, Stone, Jesse
5. Struggling Man - Jerry Garcia, Cliff, Jimmy
6. Russian Lullaby - Jerry Garcia, Berlin, Irving
7. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - Jerry Garcia, Burke, Solomon
Track Listings (8) - Disc #2
1. Let's Spend the Night Together - Jerry Garcia, Jagger, Mick
2. Mississippi Moon - Jerry Garcia, Rowan, Peter
3. Let It Rock - Jerry Garcia, Berry, Chuck
4. When the Hunter Gets Captured by the Game - Jerry Garcia, Robinson, William
5. Ain t No Bread in the Bread Box - Jerry Garcia, Buffalo
6. Positively 4th Street - Jerry Garcia, Dylan, Bob
7. The Maker - Jerry Garcia, Lanois, Daniel
8. Midnight Moonlight - Jerry Garcia, Rowan, Peter

CD Details

All Artists: Jerry Garcia
Title: Shining Star
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: Arista
Release Date: 3/20/2001
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Country, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
Styles: Folk Rock, Jam Bands, Rock Jam Bands, Country Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 078221407922

Synopsis

Amazon.com

This is the third official CD set to chronicle the Garcia Band's early '90s period and as such it fills in the gaps not covered by Jerry Garcia Band and How Sweet It Is. Focused more, it seems, on choosing songs not found on those previous two releases, it does not find Garcia in peak form all the way through. Still, there are many highlights across these 15 cover songs, such as the jaunty "Russian Lullaby" and the super soulful "Ain't No Bread in the Breadbox." Interestingly enough, 6 of the 10 songs Garcia first included on 1974's studio album Compliments appear here, in addition to late-period additions to the repertoire like the aforementioned "Breadbox," the Manhattans' 1980s soul hit "Shining Star," and Daniel Lanois's "The Maker." Garcia's voice may not have held up over the years, but you can't argue with the emotion he invests in these performances. Not an essential entry all in all, but a valuable complement to the other sets of similar vintage. --Marc Greilsamer

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CD Reviews

Just not that good

ECU_Classic_Music_Fan | Charlotte, NC United States | 02/22/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Sorry but I just can't get into it even though I'm a big Jerry fan. I ordered it back when it was first released and listened to it a few times before putting it away. A year or so later I tried to get into it again - no luck. Most of the time I end up giving anything associated with Garcia 5 stars. Not this time. This is full of lack luster performances that never get off the ground. I really cannot even believe I'm giving it 3 stars. I just spot it 3 stars because you get to hear Jerry's guitar. And the cover art is almost insulting. It looks like some bad imitation of 60's art. I cannot believe Jerry would have been proud of this disaster. Buy something else from him."

Don't you ever go down on Broadway Street

Dark Star-The Other One | The Bus To Never Ever Land | 09/22/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The idea for this Garcia release was to collect songs that hadn't already been released by this lineup on the two past live releases Jerry Garcia Band and How Sweet It Is but were standards in the Jerry Garcia Band set lists. Quite a few of these weren't even in the set lists during the time the other two releases were recorded. The major problem that I have with this, is not the versions but simply the fact that many Jerry Garcia Band songs didn't turn up that I would've hoped for. I've would 've perferred Bright Side Of The Street instead of yet another Money Honey. For example, this release covers 1989 to 1993 but there are no versions of Mission In The Rain, Reuben And Cherise, Love In the Afternoon and so on.

What is here is is pretty good to quite good, for the most part, in my humble opinion. The major problem is that this release feels like it's at least one disc short, if not two. Standouts are a flawless and moving Shining Star, Mississippi Moon, Russian Lullaby and The Maker and explosive versions of He Ain't Give You None, Let It Rock, Midnight Moonlight, and Let's Spend The Night Together. I Second That Emotion, When The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game, and Strugglin' Man are very good while the versions of Everybody Needs Somebody To Love and Positively 4th Street are a little below par compaired to some of the versions out there.

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