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OLD AND IN THE WAY

OLD AND IN THE WAY (1973: Jerry Garcia [bnj, voc]; David Grisman [mdln, voc]; Peter Rowan [gtr, voc]; Vassar Clements [fdl]; John Kahn [b]) In the beginning, before God created The Grateful Dead , there was a young, BLUEGRASS BANJO picker named Jerry Garcia working around San Francisco in a jug band. Garcia's love for bluegrass music did not end after he became the ultimate hippie rocker, and he formed the informal group Old and in the Way as a means to express his love for this music (the name…

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