{"product_id":"the-chieftains-bears-sonic-journals-the-foxhunt-the-chieftains-live-in-san-francisco-1973-1976","title":"THE CHIEFTAINS - Bear's Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt, The Chieftains Live in San Francisco, 1973 \u0026 1976","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2CD - Limited Hardback Edition (first run) with 36-page booklet. CD2 features bonus material including the last interview Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains ever gave before his passing in 2021 and a history of Irish roots in Bluegrass music by The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing last year’s relaunch of \u003cstrong\u003eCladdagh Records\u003c\/strong\u003e, through the signing of a worldwide licensing agreement with \u003cstrong\u003eUniversal Music Ireland\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the flagship release \u003cem\u003eChronicles: 60 years of The Chieftains\u003c\/em\u003e, comes another singular release: \u003cem\u003eBear's Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt, The Chieftains Live in San Francisco 1973 \u0026amp; 1976\u003c\/em\u003e. This never-released-before project from \u003cstrong\u003eThe Owsley Stanley Foundation\u003c\/strong\u003e and Claddagh Records is the last ever by the legendary member of The Chieftains, \u003cstrong\u003ePaddy Moloney\u003c\/strong\u003e. It will be released worldwide on Friday, 2nd September 2022 on 1LP, 2CD and digital platforms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBear's Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt, The Chieftains Live in San Francisco 1973 \u0026amp; 1976\u003c\/em\u003e was recorded live by legendary soundman \u003cstrong\u003eOwsley “Bear” Stanley\u003c\/strong\u003e, at Boarding House on 1st October 1973, where The Chieftains appeared at the personal invitation of \u003cstrong\u003eThe Grateful Dead\u003c\/strong\u003e’s \u003cstrong\u003eJerry Garcia\u003c\/strong\u003e. Owsley Stanley, known as Bear to his friends, was a diversely talented, iconic figure of the 1960s. While perhaps most widely known as the ‘\u003cem\u003eAcid King\u003c\/em\u003e’ for his early role manufacturing the highest quality LSD to help fuel the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s, he was a self-educated innovator, scientist, artist, and patron of the arts with wide-ranging interests. As such, he had a profound and well-documented influence on other artists, musicians, and sound engineers, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBear started recording when he was the soundman for the Grateful Dead so he could develop his technique, evaluate his equipment, and fine-tune his mic arrangements. He called these recordings his ‘\u003cem\u003eSonic Journals\u003c\/em\u003e’ and they helped to improve his approach to live concert sound. B\u003cem\u003eear's Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Chieftains Live in San Francisco 1973 \u0026amp; 1976\u003c\/em\u003e is one of these ‘\u003cem\u003eSonic Journals\u003c\/em\u003e’, which are lovingly maintained by The Owsley Stanley Foundation – a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation Owsley’s archive of more than 1,300 live concert soundboard recordings from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including recordings by Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac, Janis Joplin, and more than 80 other artists across nearly every musical idiom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHawk Semins\u003c\/strong\u003e of The Owsley Stanley Foundation says: “Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead’s lead guitarist, was playing banjo in the rollicking bluegrass band Old \u0026amp; In The Way, and after Jerry appeared with The Chieftains on \u003cstrong\u003eTom “\u003cem\u003eBig Daddy\u003c\/em\u003e” Donahue\u003c\/strong\u003e’s radio show on \u003cstrong\u003eKSAN\u003c\/strong\u003e, he wanted them to open for him. During the KSAN broadcast, Jerry explained the influence of Irish traditional music on American country and bluegrass music, saying that ‘the nature of the songs is like what the fathers of country and western music, American music, grew up singing.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perhaps, Jerry was also resonating with his own heritage when he invited The Chieftains to open for \u003cstrong\u003eOld \u0026amp; In The Way\u003c\/strong\u003e— after all, his grandfather \u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Clifford\u003c\/strong\u003e was Irish American. In any event, when Jerry brought these two bands together onstage, he was reuniting two musical traditions separated by an ocean and centuries of migration: bluegrass and its Irish progenitor. 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