Tennessee Jed - Grateteful Dead, performed by Glenn Weiser

The original Tennessee Jed was the squirrel gun-packing hero of a 1940's Western radio program for kids. The Grateful Dead song of the same name was written by Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter, who explained that "'Tennessee Jed' originated in Barcelona, Spain. Topped up on vino tinto, I composed it aloud to the sound of a jaw harp twanged between echoing building faces by someone strolling half a block ahead of me in the late summer twilight." The band started playing it in 1971, and it is featured on Europe 72."
Here I fingerpick the song on an old Gibson acoustic guitar and add a harmonica solo towards the end.

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• Tennesse Jed
• Grateful Dead
• Glenn Weiser
• fingerstyle guitar
• blues harmonica
• Dancing Bear