[Pre Order] Jerry Garcia - Cats Under The Stars - LP *

Release Date: August 7, 2026

140g black vinyl reissue of the 1978 album — the first record billed to the Jerry Garcia Band.

Cats Under The Stars was the first album presented as the Jerry Garcia Band, a lineup that paired Garcia with John Kahn and several of his Grateful Dead bandmates. It marked a clean break from the covers-heavy sets that came before: an all-new repertoire of originals written with Robert Hunter, cut in the studio Garcia had just built.

The record carries the songs Deadheads have kept close ever since — "Rubin and Cherise," "Gomorrah," "Palm Sunday," and the title track — in the loose, soulful groove that defined Garcia's work outside the Dead. Long a personal favorite of Garcia's own, it has aged into one of the most quietly beloved entries in his catalog.

Features

• 140g black vinyl
• Originally released in 1978; first album billed to the Jerry Garcia Band
• All-original repertoire written with Robert Hunter
• Label: Round Records

Track Listing

1. Rubin and Cherise
2. Love in the Afternoon
3. Palm Sunday
4. Cats Under the Stars
5. Rhapsody in Red
6. Rain
7. Down Home
8. Gomorrah