Reflections (Jerry Garcia album)

Reflections
Reflections
Studio album by Jerry Garcia
Released	February 15, 1976
Studio	His Masters Wheels, San Francisco
Genre	Roots rock, folk rock
Label	Round Records
Producer	Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia chronology

Reflections is Jerry Garcia's third solo album, released in 1976. Partway through production, Garcia stopped recording with his solo band and brought in the members of the Grateful Dead, who performed on four songs, plus a bonus jam from 2004 release. Three of the four Grateful Dead-performed songs had earlier live debuts: "Comes a Time" (1971), "They Love Each Other" (1973) and "It Must Have Been the Roses" (1974); "Might as Well" entered their rotation in 1976, and "Mission in the Rain" received a select few performances that same year. Most of the songs entered the live rotation of the new Jerry Garcia Band as well.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B[2]
Music Box	[3]
Rolling Stone	(not rated)[4]

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Might As Well"	Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter	3:54
2.	"Mission In The Rain"	Garcia, Hunter	5:04
3.	"They Love Each Other"	Garcia, Hunter	4:37
4.	"I'll Take a Melody"	Allen Toussaint	9:28

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"It Must Have Been the Roses"	Hunter	5:29
6.	"Tore Up Over You"	Hank Ballard	4:30
7.	"Catfish John"	Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds	7:00
8.	"Comes a Time"	Garcia, Hunter	6:29

The album was reissued in the All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions box set with the following bonus tracks:

Bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
9.	"Mystery Train (Studio Jam)"	Junior Parker, Sam Phillips	5:12
10.	"All By Myself (Studio Jam)"	Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino	4:10
11.	"Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie"	Elizabeth Cotten	3:12
12.	"You Win Again"	Hank Williams	2:25
13.	"Orpheus"	Grateful Dead	16:44

Personnel

Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, acoustic guitar, organ, synthesizer, percussion, chimes, vocals

Grateful Dead

on "Might As Well", "They Love Each Other", "It Must Have Been the Roses", "Comes a Time", "Orpheus"

Bob Weir – second guitar, background vocals
Phil Lesh – bass
Bill Kreutzmann – drums
Keith Godchaux – Fender Rhodes, acoustic piano, tack piano
Donna Jean Godchaux – background vocals ("Might as Well", "It Must Have Been the Roses")
Mickey Hart – drums, percussion
John Kahn – organ (on "They Love Each Other")

Jerry Garcia Band

on "Mission in the Rain", "I'll Take a Melody", "Tore Up Over You", "Catfish John", "Mystery Train", "All By Myself", "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie", "You Win Again"

Nicky Hopkins – piano
Larry Knechtel – Fender Rhodes, piano
John Kahn – bass, organ, synthesizer, vibraphone, clavinet
Ron Tutt – drums
Donna Jean Godchaux, Bob Weir – background vocals (on "I'll Take a Melody" and "Catfish John")
Mickey Hart – percussion ("I'll Take a Melody", "Tore up over You", "Catfish John")

Production

Engineer – Dan Healy
Production assistants – Steve Brown, Kidd, Ramrod, Steve Parrish
Cover – Mike Steirnagel
Art direction – Ria Lewerke
Second engineers – Rob Taylor, Willi Deenihan, Joel Edelstein
Engineer & mix-down engineer – Smiggy

References

Planer, Lindsay. Reflections at AllMusic
Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: G". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
Music Box review
Niester, Alan (June 3, 1976). Reflections, Rolling Stone

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[1] Planer, Lindsay. Reflections at AllMusic

[2] Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: G". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.

[3] Music Box review

[4] Niester, Alan (June 3, 1976). Reflections, Rolling Stone