While everyone with a smartphone has been raving about Beyoncé’s Renaissance record drop – which, to be fair, hits the senses like sonic gelatin – Jerry Garcia’s face has been lighting up some of the most unlikely venues around the nation.
Celebrate Jerry Day
And Days Between
Monday marked what would have been Garcia’s 80th birthday and the beginning of the “Days Between,” which signifies the strange string of days between Garcia’s birthday (Jerry Day) and the day of his death (Aug. 9, 1995). The groundbreaking guitarist and cultural icon was only 53 years old.
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