Sugaree

Song_infobox
Name = Sugaree
Artist = Jerry Garcia
Album = Garcia
Released = January 1972
track_no = 3
Recorded = 1971
Genre = Folk rock
Length = 5:54
Writer = Robert Hunter
Composer = Jerry Garcia
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Bob Matthews
Betty Cantor
Bill Kreutzmann
[ Chart position = ]
prev = "Bird Song"
prev_no = 2
next = "Loser"
next_no = 4

"Sugaree" is a song written by long-time Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by guitarist Jerry Garcia.Cite web|url=http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/sugaree.html|title=The Annotated "Sugaree"|accessdate=2007-03-11|author=Dodd, David|work=The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics|format=html] It was written for Jerry Garcia's first solo album "Garcia", which was released in January of 1972. As with the songs on the rest of the album, Garcia plays every instrument himself (except drums, played by Bill Kreutzmann), including acoustic guitar, bass guitar, and an electric guitar played through a leslie speaker.

The song was first performed live on July 31, 1971, at the Yale Bowl in Yale University, as was the song "Mr. Charlie". The track appears on numerous other recordings, including "Dick's Picks Volume 3" and "One From the Vault".

Fred Neil released a song in 1966 on his eponymous album called "I've Got a Secret (Didn't We Shake Sugaree)."

Elizabeth Cotton wrote and recorded "Shake Sugaree," also about dying, in 1967. The chorus of Cotton's song is "Oh lordie me/Didn't I shake sugaree?"

ee also

* Dark Star
* Musical improvisation

Notes

External links

* [http://www.dead.net Dead.net] , the official homepage of the Grateful Dead.