I’ve been wanting to share this bootleg for a long time. The copy that my sister gave to me as a gift years ago is entitled Lonesome Prison Blues. This is Jerry Garcia playing acoustic with John Kahn on the bass in front of a small audience of inmates at the Oregon state penitentiary on 5-5-82.
The recording is decent with only a couple of flaws. Jerry was in great spirits this day and his playing reflects it. Jerry sounds much like he does on Run For The Roses, the last of his solo albums which was recorded around the same time. The Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie still brings a tear to my eye when I hear it.
Most deadheads will already have this in their collection and if anybody is willing to trade for the lossless soundboard version in circulation I’d love to get a copy. Here is the info from the etree db. As far as I know, this show has never been officially released and is under no copyright restrictions. So sit back, listen and enjoy!
Oregon State Prison, Salem, Or. (5-5-82)
1. Deep Elem Blues 2:30
2. Friend Of The Devil 5:45
3. Jack-A-Roe 4:39
4. Babe, It Ain’t No Lie 6:12
5. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 5:33
6. Run For The Roses 3:45
7. Ripple 4:20
8. I’ve Been All Around This World 4:06
9. Valerie 6:32
10. Dire Wolf 3:43
11. Rubin And Cherise 5:50
Thanks so much for sharing! I can’t wait to listen to these.
Thanks for sharing, but … tracks 3, 4, and 8 seem to be MIA! (Probably just a problem with the URLs?)
Eeks! Sorry bout that, got the URLs all straightened out and tracks 3, 4 and 8 are now available.
I’ve had this show on tape since the early 90’s. This is better qaulity than my cassette.
Dude!!! Thank you from the utmost bottom of my heart!! What a kind brothah to share w/ us. Love, light & peace your way!!
thanks so much!!! all the searching i’ve done for acoustic dead never found this till now.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
thank oh so KINDLY! this is one of my favorits shows. Ihad ti years ago on tape and lost , now can jam again to it.
your generosity is makes my ears bloom each time I hear this
I’ve had this on tape for 12 years, but haven’t listened to it in a long time, due to tapes being obsolete. How can I get a copy on disc?
I agree that it’s a great set of music. Nothing fancy. Just honest, acoustic beauty. Thanks for sharing it with the world and helping to keep Garcia’s music alive.
Do you know of anywhere the tabs to this song are posted? I would love to learn some of these songs, and several of them i have never heard before antwhere else. any info would be greatly appreciated!
THANX
Thank you so much, there is lettle out there fro the days of solo Jerry on acoustic (I recall a magical night in Hartford or was it Springfield?) In an event, # 7 & #8 are MIA, both are truly missed.
Fare ye well
You’re such a legend! I’ve been looking for this recording for years now and haven’t been able to find it anywhere. Thank you so much!
Awesome music. If you haven’t heard this yet, listen to it. I have a copy of it on CD and was listening to it in the car on the way to work today, but it is poor quality. I was just searching for an image of Jerry at the time and stumbled on this site. I hope that this is better quality. I will listen to them when I get home from work today. Can you copy the songs down to your computer? I will try and find out tonight I guess.
Best to everyone
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I’m glad everybody is enjoying the show so much, feels great to spread the love.
Mike, thanks for the nice words and the review on stumbleupon!
Gonzolla, you can download the tracks in mp3 format by clicking on the title.
Holly, download the mp3 files and then use your favorite cd burning software to create an audio cd (I use Toast)
Many many thanks are due. My best to ya. Cheers!
Good Job! Well Done! Kudos! Thank You!
So glad to find this again.
This just made my work day 1000 times better:)
Thank you
[...] But on a Google image search, I stumpled upon a great site, Cuckoobird.net. Matt beat me by a few months. He posted the show back in February. And poke me with a stick and call me Frank, he still has the show up. Bless his soul. [...]
[...] Jerry at the Big house in OR in 1982 [...]
How do I download these. I went camping about 9 years ago and two dudes smokin’ mass amounts of weed gave me this tape……and I misplaced it….and I’ve been lookin’ for it ever since.
Danks Man! This is awesome stuff. I’ve been a deadhead for over 20 years and never even knew this one existed! I saw Jerry solo, (not JGB) in 89 in Philly. It was a magical show from a magical man. As is this! What great sound too. Thanks again!
Hi, I was just wondering if comment 22 had been answered already? I’d like to know as well…peace luv grease.
Where is the best site to find tapers and traders?
Hey man I originally bought this on cassette at worcester st. college at a flee market sometime in the early 90s’ It is unbelieveable thank you for giving it to me within a fingers touch!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU from the bottom of my grateful heart! i have this tape around from many many many moons ago, sacredly buried somewhere, dusty, among my other traded shows… i have always pulled it out on occasion to reattune to the real life, the truth, the dharma, the LOVE, the LIGHT, the IS, the ME, the YOU, the US, the teacher… the ONE. “i ain’t afraid of the cold cruel world outside…” - Jerry Garcia
the quinessential raw, unaltered, unfettered Jerry Garcia.
Rest in Peace,
and Thank you Family!!
In Grateful Eternal Bliss,
Rhianna
p.s. WOW i’m a HIPPIE! ahahahaa
I heard this bootleg a log time ago and lost it. Its good to here it again, do you know where I can download it or buy it?
Technology is great. Being an ol fart dead head that used to collect vinyl bootlegs, this is awesome. I can copy this to my Zune, plug myself in take a few hits and turn the clock back decades. Can’t thank ya enough.
Please tell me how to download this show?
Unreal, God I miss Jerry.
Thank you so much for posting this for everyone to enjoy.
Great stuff!
Man this is one of my favorite albums… thank you so much!
Thanks for the stream, u can download this beauty at http://www.sharefreemusic.com (find the jerry section) alng with another 8 disc set that is a supurb collection of tasty treats… Hands down the best Oh babe ever to grace the ears of anyone, what i would do to be locked up in oregon in 82… maby somebody could answer this question that has been irkin me… what song does the inmate request at the end of oh babe it aint no lie… i just cant make it out… maby your ears are better than mine… thanks for the stream… “We can all be together, forever and ever, when we make it to the Promised Land”…. -Capt…
I snagged this disc from my sister years ago…felt terrible about losing it. Now I can replace for her B-Day!!! Thanks so much.
~ C
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! My husband used to have a bootleg copy of this recording that had belonged to his identical twin brother who comitted suicide. My husband hopped on and off of Dead tour as a runaway for years, and we were actually at the same show (didn’t meet there though) 1994 @ RFK in DC. When our son was born, he was named for his deceased uncle without hesitation. Our son was always difficult to get to sleep, and my husband used to always sing “I’ve been All Around this World” to him… Our relationship was very volatile, but I would always know we were going to have a good day if my husband put in his brother’s tape of this. Eventually, I convinced him to make me a copy–which I lost, then he misplaced his… I have been SEARCHING for it for years (our son is now 4!) I cannot express how grateful I am to you for sharing… It is extremely special to our family and I can now make him a CD for his birthday! Maybe we’ll get back together for good
THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES OVER–your kindness will be returned tenfold.
Hey Mischa, your comment warms my heart. I’m so glad that I was able to reunite you with this show. Its amazing how therapeutic Dead music is especially in times of turmoil in life. Hunter and Garcia had a synergy which allowed them to create so much beautiful music with an amazingly uplifting message.
“If you get confused listen to the music play!”
thanks,,sounds naked and glorious but with clothes on.great recording thanks…..chubby bearded guys are not my type(hetro only) but jerry will always be my favorite guitarist/musician
CAN’T WAIT TO LISTEN TO THIS. boy i miss the good old days.
i miss you jerry. when work is tough the boys are always on the streaming radio. i am still hearing new shows every week 60’s 70’s80’s and so on.
scott
buffalo grove,il
first show 1978 uptown theater, chicago
thANKS SO MUCH1!!
I’ve been looking for this show since I was just starting to play some of jerry’s stuff 7 years ago! My brother played this set for me and I’ve been tring to find it ever since. Seems I just wasn’t looking in the right place-thanks for sharing the love and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I know I have! I’ve had this website opened for months now, its almost all I care to listen to!
Thanks a million. Great quality tunes and great memories.
Good performance but unfortunately it was recorded a bit too “hot,” resulting in some annoying acoustic guitar high-end distortion and also some on Jerry’s vocals.
Otherwise, a very nice addition to the recorded legacy of Captain Trips.
great stuff, i just remixed it with an equallizer asi played it. i do it to all the music i listen to on the net.
I have had this album since I was 15 and picked it up at a music swap in astoria. I am 29 now and still smash it. I played this over an indoor speaker set up out of the back of my truck when I was 19 at the Oregon Country Fair and had the masses dancing. I swear when I was younger in the late 80’s they played it on OPB
This is an awesome bootleg, you can really hear the sould behind his playing and singing. My favorite part is at the end of ‘Dire Wolf’ when the crow is going nuts and he’s like you guys want one more? and is almost surprised that they are into it.
WOW !!!!
Anyone know of getting a similar show like this–tower theatre upper darby ,pa.???
Many thanks for this…had been searching for it rather passively after having lost the tape years ago. I used to listen to this bootleg non-stop, and the version of Rubin & Cherise is my absolute favorite.
Many, many thanks.
Thank you for keeping this alive, it was recorded on the day i was born so it is very speical to me
Thank you so much! I have been listening to this bootleg for decades, but they don’t make cars with tape players anymore. Blessings to you.
epic epic i had a copy of this freshman year at ucsc and it really was awesome to go search for waves and do road trips to this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i copied it to my computer luckily!!!!
peace bretheren!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
still wish i had my “cherice” but thats ok, im grateful
I have a tape of this show that has been recorded/copied at least 4 or 5 times. THANK YOU for posting these files. Much more enjoyable with good sound quality.
than you so much. I recently received a cassette copy of this but am afraid I’ll play it into a tangled mess. great to have it on mp3 now.
Spring break from college 03′ road trip, 5 friends in a white pick up through the dessert and into the canyon lands. We listed to this non-stop.
Thank you for bringing me back to those wonderful memories!
I first heard this show in a bar in Syracuse (Blue Tusk) on a snowy Thanksgiving week night. At first I thought somebody was playing acoustic in another room of the place. The bartender had an extra copy with him and gave it to me, but it would never play right for me, so for years I searched for this show. Listening to it right now and did a search wanting more background, found this site. Will be back to check other jams. Thanks for sharing.
Does anyone know why Jerry was there? I heard his brother or a close friend was in that prison at the time. I had a friend there in the 90’s who said an inmate told him that. It may just be jailhouse jargon but has me curious as to why Jerry would be there who is likely a fan of some inmates but probably not a fan of any prison.