In the history of music, Jerry Garcia is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jerry Garcia as American guitarist and singer (1942–1995).
Jerry Garcia was born at San Francisco in 1942. His recorded nationality is the United States.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as guitarist, singer and banjoist.
His name is attached above all to distinctive guitar playing, and was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" cover story in 2003. Music outlives its context more reliably than any other art, and usually for reasons its makers did not predict.
That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Jerry Garcia died in 1995, aged 53. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Worked as guitarist, singer and banjoist
