Cats Under the Stars

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Cats Under the Stars
Studio album by Jerry Garcia Band
Released	April 1978
Genre	Rock, Folk
Label	Arista Records
Producer	Jerry Garcia & John Kahn
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Jerry Garcia Band chronology
Cats Under the Stars (1978) Jerry Garcia Band (1991)
Jerry Garcia chronology
Reflections (1976) Cats Under the Stars (1978) Run for the Roses (1982)

The first release under the name Jerry Garcia Band and Garcia's first album on the Arista label, Cats Under the Stars was released in 1978. Garcia, in the years before his death in 1995, considered this album to be his favorite.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 2.1 Jerry Garcia Band 2.2 Additional personnel 2.3 Production

[edit] Track listing

1. "Reuben And Cérise" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 5:17
2. "Love In The Afternoon" (Hunter, John Kahn) – 4:09
3. "Palm Sunday" (Hunter, Garcia) – 2:21
4. "Cats Under The Stars" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:31
5. "Rhapsody In Red" (Hunter, Garcia, Kahn) – 5:11
6. "Rain" (Donna Godchaux) – 5:53
7. "Down Home" (Kahn) – 1:46
8. "Gomorrah" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:26

The album was reissued in the All Good Things box set with the following bonus tracks:

9. "Magnificent Sancuary Band" (Dorsey Burnette) – 3:50

10. "I'll Be With Thee" (trad.) – 6:01

11. "The Way You Do the Things You Do" (Smokey Robinson, Robert "Bobby" Rogers) – 5:01

12. "Mighty High" (David Crawford, Richard Downing) – 3:04

13. "Don't Let Go" (Jesse Stone) – 15:59

14. "Down Home (Rehearsal Version)" (Kahn) – 1:49

15. "Palm Sunday (Alternate Take)" (Hunter, Garcia) – 2:24

• Tracks 9 & 11-13 are from a rehearsal session in November 1976.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Jerry Garcia Band

• Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
• Donna Jean Godchaux - vocals
• Keith Godchaux - keyboards, background vocals
• John Kahn - basses, keyboards, guitar, orchestration
• Ron Tutt - drums, percussion

[edit] Additional personnel

• Merl Saunders - organ
• Maria Muldaur - background vocals on tracks 2, 8 & 10
• Stephen Schuster - flute, clarinet, saxophone
• Brian Godchaux - violin
• Candy Godchaux - violin

[edit] Production

• Engineers - Betty Cantor-Jackson, Bob Matthews
• Assistants - Harry Popick, Steve Parrish, Bill Candelario, Ramrod
• Cover art - Kelly Mouse Studios