Uncle John's Band [SEP] record label
and album history.
Warner Bros. Records released "Uncle John's Band," backed with "New Speedway Boogie," as a single in 1970, receiving only limited airplay due to its length. Garcia worked with Warners to cut it down, though he later called the mix "an atrocity." "I gave them instructions on how to properly edit it and they garbled it so completely," Garcia commented. The original album version ended up getting more air play than the revised Warner Bros. version.
While
New Lost City Ramblers' extensive recordings for the Folkways label became, after the death of Moe Asch, part of the Smithsonian Institution, which reissues Folkways titles on CD.
John Cohen is said to have inspired the titular John of the Grateful Dead's 1970 album and song, "Uncle John's Band.
Discography.
- "The New Lost City Ramblers" (1958) (Folkways Records)
- "The New Lost City Ramblers Vol. II" (1959) (Folkways)
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