Song
Sugaree
338 plays · 1971 – 1995
Stats
Peak year
1972
48 plays
Peak era
Europe / Wall
96 plays
Years in rotation
25
avg 13.5/yr
Usually
Set 1
90% of plays
Show opener
6%
20 of 311
Debuted
1971-07-31Last played
1995-07-08Album
Garcia (Jerry Garcia)
1972
Written by
Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter
By decade
70s
187
80s
106
90s
45
Often comes in from
- 22%Hell in a Bucket(67×)
- 12%Promised Land(38×)
- 11%Jack Straw(34×)
Often leads into
- 9%New Minglewood Blues(31×)
- 8%El Paso(28×)
- 8%Me and My Uncle(28×)
Garcia/Hunter from the Garcia 1972 solo album, played by the Dead from summer '71 on. The 1977 versions are the gold standard — Jerry stretches the bridge solos into multi-peak crescendos. A song that rewards patience: the long versions are the great ones.
Best versions · Curator's picks
More high-scoring versions
By Curator Score across all shows that played Sugaree.
- 1975-08-13San Francisco, CA · Great American Music Hall123
- 1972-03-25New York, NY · Academy of Music109
- 1973-11-11San Francisco, CA · Winterland Arena107
- 1972-08-27Veneta, OR · Old Renaissance Faire Grounds94
- 1973-07-27Watkins Glen, NY · Grand Prix Racecourse76
- 1974-05-19Portland, OR · Portland Memorial Coliseum74
Every time Curator has written about it
16 mentions across the listening journal.
Numbers show each show's Curator Score · how it works
Typically great 77 Sugaree.
Smoking Sugaree solos.
Killer Sugaree into Minglewood for the start.
Good earlier Sugaree.
Sugaree is also on point.
Holy smokes on the Sugaree solo!
EPIC Sugaree.
Great Sugaree.
Very cool trio of Lazy Lightning into Supplication into Sugaree to end the first set.
Unbelievable laid back 17 minute Sugaree with keys to die for as the second song of the first set.
Killer 11 minute Sugaree to start.
I really dig the vocals on Sugaree.
Breathtaking Sugaree to start.
Smoking Hell In a bucket to start into Sugaree.
Followed by scorching Sugaree.
Mississippi Half-Step, Me and My Uncle, Sugaree as the opening trio is perfectly executed and a tremendously strong combo to start a show on in general.
Listen to Sugaree from 1977-05-22 — official release