“Deal” by Jerry Garcia

"Deal" comes from Garcia, the 1972 solo debut of Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead's guitarist and singer, released in January of that year after Warner Bros. offered the Dead's members the chance to make records of their own. Garcia wrote it with lyricist Robert Hunter and plays nearly everything on it himself: acoustic and electric guitar, pedal steel, bass, piano and organ, with Bill Kreutzmann the only other player, on drums.

Betty Cantor-Jackson and Bob Matthews produced and engineered it, with Kreutzmann and Ram Rod assisting, and Garcia had a hand in the mix. Garcia called the whole album a lighthearted project, but the Hunter co-writes on it had staying power: all six of them became standards in the Grateful Dead's live repertoire, this one included.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.