Garcia also chose obscure, deeper album tracks, making them very much his own. I relate to them that well." Nowhere can that symbiotically beneficial relationship be heard better than the profound and practically spiritual "Positively 4th Street" circa the mid-'70s Jerry Garcia Band with Nicky Hopkins (piano) and Ron Tutt (drums). As the liner notes point out, Garcia felt ".right in those songs." Adding, "When I sing them I feel like I could have written them. Rather than going all the way back to the pre-psychedelic Grateful Dead - when the band included covers of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and "She Belongs to Me" in its repertoire - the earliest inclusion finds Garcia fronting a quartet alongside Merl Saunders (organ) through a blues-infused treatment of "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry." Dylan provided Garcia with perhaps his most intimately interpreted material. While the occasional exception exists, the contents are primarily presented in a chronological fashion. Similarly, Ladder to the Stars: Garcia Plays Dylan (2005) examines the unique relationship between the pair, featuring Jerry Garcia (guitar/vocals) in a variety of musical settings spanning nearly a quarter century.
This double-disc anthology works well as a thematic companion to Postcards of the Hanging: The Grateful Dead Perform the Songs of Bob Dylan (2002).
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