Bobby Ace

I was doing some thinking about Bob Weir's musical journey, and what I view to be the pivotal "Bobby Ace" period, running most obviously from about mid-1969 through 1970. And, since we were just talking about Family Dog shows, I got to thinking about the April 1970 acoustic gigs. Long story short, I just did some sniffing around some of the more obscure (in the Garciaverse) numbers they did. Here's a back-of-the-napkin breakdown.

Note that, as far as I can tell, this is entirely roots-derived white contemporary stuff - is there a black songwriter in the whole repertoire? Anyway, FWIW.

Traditional

! song: Slewfoot

! song: Wabash Cannonball

Everly Brothers Originals

! song: All I Have To Do Is Dream (not their composition, but I think they did it first)

! song: Cathy's Clown

! song: So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)

! song: Wake Up Little Susie

Bakersfield

! song: Mama Tried – Merle Haggard

! song: I've Got A Tiger By The Tail – Buck Owens

George Jones

! song: The Race Is On

! song: Old Old House

! song: Seasons Of My Heart

Contemporary Country – all of these were written in the 1960s

! song: Let It Be Me – also done by Everly Brothers

! song: Let Me In – Porter Wagoner

! song: Long Black Limousine – first available via Glen Campbell in 1962, eventually Merle Haggard and Elvis, too.

! song: Me And My Uncle – John Philips

! song: Silver Threads And Golden Needles – also by Everly Brothers

! song: Dire Wolf – Garcia/Hunter (sung by Weir 7/4/69)

! song: Green Green Grass Of Home – Curly Putnam, but done by Porter Wagoner and on Merle Haggard's Mama Tried.

! song: Games People Play – Joe South – also by Everly Brothers