"In a way, it was a song about the end of life and was better suited to the tired and broken Garcia of fifty than the strong, confident man of thirty who first sang it."
- from Blair Jackson's Garcia: An American Life
Jackson is writing about "Stella Blue," yet what he says applies to the Dead's cover of Merle Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home" - but with a twist: Garcia only sang it during those "strong, confident" years, but he performed it as though he knew exactly what it was like to be tired and broken at fifty.
Grateful Dead - Sing Me Back Home [buy]
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