August is cooling off and beginning to foreshadow the end of summer days. The general energy has matched this pattern, as it has been an overall somber week or so in music history.

Last Tuesday marked 27 years since the passing of Jerry Garcia and the closing of the Days Between (his birth and death). It was only eight days following his 53rd birthday that he suffered cardiac arrest in a drug treatment facility.

It’s been just long enough that his remembrance is now a celebration. On his 80th birthday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed proclaimed it…