Blog: Cahl's Juke Joint: A rock, blues and jazz blog

I love several Grateful Dead albums and I adore "Old and in the Way," a bluegrass collaboration between Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. But none of those recordings move me like the ones Garcia made with organist Merl Saunders, who died Friday. An old girlfriend, a Deadhead, introduced me to their music because she knew I was as fanatic about Hammond B3 organists as she was about the Dead. I've been grateful ever sense. Saunders softened Garcia's sound at times, adding layers of soul when they played songs such as Bob Dylan's "Positively [...]