Reflections is the third solo album by the Grateful Dead's guitarist Jerry Garcia, released on February 3, 1976. Partway through production, Garcia stopped recording with his solo band and brought in the members of the Grateful Dead, who performed on four songs, plus a bonus jam from 2004 release. Three of the four Grateful Dead-performed songs had earlier live debuts: "Comes a Time" (1971), "They Love Each Other" (1973) and "It Must Have Been the Roses" (1974); "Might as Well" entered their rotation in 1976, and "Mission in the Rain" received a select few performances that same year. Most of the songs entered the live rotation of the new Jerry Garcia Band as well.
Reflections was reissued with several bonus tracks as part of the All Good Things box set in 2004.
A 50th anniversary edition of the album was released in 2026 as a three-disc LP and digital download. The second disc contains the same outtakes as the 2004 edition, and the third disc contains live performances of some of the songs.
Track listing
The album was reissued in the All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions box set with the following bonus tracks: The 50th anniversary edition added these live tracks:
Personnel Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, acoustic guitar, organ, synthesizer, percussion, chimes, vocals
Grateful Dead on "Might As Well", "They Love Each Other", "It Must Have Been the Roses", "Comes a Time", "Orpheus" Bob Weir – second guitar, background vocals Phil Lesh – bass Bill Kreutzmann – drums Keith Godchaux – Fender Rhodes, acoustic piano, tack piano Donna Jean Godchaux – background vocals ("Might as Well", "It Must Have Been the Roses") Mickey Hart – drums, percussion John Kahn – organ (on "They Love Each Other")
Jerry Garcia Band on "Mission in the Rain", "I'll Take a Melody", "Tore Up Over You", "Catfish John", "Mystery Train", "All By Myself", "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie", "You Win Again" Nicky Hopkins – piano Larry Knechtel – Fender Rhodes, piano John Kahn – bass, organ, synthesizer, vibraphone, clavinet Ron Tutt – drums Donna Jean Godchaux, Bob Weir – background vocals (on "I'll Take a Melody" and "Catfish John") Mickey Hart – percussion ("I'll Take a Melody", "Tore up over You", "Catfish John")
Production Engineer – Dan Healy Production assistants – Steve Brown, Kidd, Ramrod, Steve Parrish Cover – Mike Steirnagel Art direction – Ria Lewerke Second engineers – Rob Taylor, Willi Deenihan, Joel Edelstein Engineer & mix-down engineer – Smiggy
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