Compliments (album)

Compliments
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 5, 1974
RecordedFebruary 1974
GenreRoots rock, folk rock
Length35:18
LabelRound Records
ProducerJohn Kahn
Jerry Garcia chronology
Live at Keystone
(1973)
Compliments
(1974)
Old & In the Way
(1975)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB−[2]
Music Box[3]

Compliments, also known as Garcia, is the second solo album by the Grateful Dead's guitarist Jerry Garcia, released in June 1974. It includes one newly written song by John Kahn and Robert Hunter but is otherwise composed of cover versions. The album peaked at number 49 on the Billboard albums chart.

The album came to be called Compliments after its release, because early promotional copies had the word "compliments of" printed on the front, above the title Garcia. This has helped to distinguish it from Garcia's first solo LP, which was also called Garcia.

Compliments was reissued on 180-gram green vinyl, in a limited edition of 7,000 copies, as part of Record Store Day on April 18, 2015.[4]

  1. ^ Planer, Lindsay. Compliments at AllMusic
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: G". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Music Box review
  4. ^ Compliments, Record Store Day 2015. Retrieved March 11, 2015.