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Jerry Garcia: Years
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Garcia met his first wife, Sara Ruppenthal Garcia, in 1963.[17] She was working at the coffee house in the back of Kepler's Bookstore where Garcia, Hunter, and Nelson performed. They married on April 23 of the same year, and had their only child together, a girl, whom they named Heather, on December 8, 1963.[37]
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In 1957 Garcia received his first guitar for his fifteenth birthday, just as rock and roll was gaining popularity. That same year, Garcia was introduced to marijuana. Garcia began taking classes for painting at a nearby college while he
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In 1985 Garcia was caught freebasing in Golden Gate Park. His penalty (for possession of cocaine and heroine) was to enroll in a drug program and perform a benefit concert. A year later he fell into diabetic coma for five days and a year after recovery his fourth daughter, Keelin, was born to Manasha Matheson.
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Shady Grove was recorded in Dawg Studios during the last five years of Jerry's life and shows the breadth and depth of Jerry Garcia as one of the great interpretive American folk artists of this or any other generation. This soulful set of 13 classic acoustic performances comes in a special slipcase and includes a comprehensive 44 page booklet of notes by John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers, newly published photos, lyrics to the songs and a selected folk discography.
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"Jerry had his problems over the years with substances, but he had amazing resilience. The music kept him alive," noted John Grissim of Point Reyes Station, a former editor of Rolling Stone magazine.
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Garcia met Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Adams at an acid test and the two were a couple for a number of years. The whole lot of them, the Grateful Dead moved to 710 Ashbury where they were fully enveloped in the scene and their music really evolved into what it is today.
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