Round Records Vinyl, CDs & Cassettes

Round Records was founded in 1973 as a subsidiary of Grateful Dead Records, the band's own independent label, which was started after the Dead's contract with Warner Bros. expired and they decided to take things into their own hands. The original run of the label produced a small but essential group of records, Jerry Garcia's solo output, Robert Hunter's first albums, Old and in the Way, the Phil Lesh and Ned Lagin collaboration Seastones, and a handful of other releases from the extended Dead family. It was an experiment in artist ownership at a time when that wasn't the default, and it lasted until 1976.

The label was revived decades later as the home for the GarciaLive series, an ongoing archival project that pulls complete Jerry Garcia Band concerts from the vault and releases them with the care they deserve. The series runs deep now, more than twenty volumes of Jerry and his band working through their wide-ranging repertoire, Dylan, Motown, reggae, rock and roll, gospel-inflected soul, all of it run through Garcia's singular guitar voice and the JGB's loose, warm approach to whatever they touched.

For Heads who know the Jerry Garcia Band's live catalog, these releases are the real thing. Specific dates, specific venues, full sets, documented properly and pressed right. If you've spent time at a show wondering what a particular night sounded like or following the evolution of the band across different eras and lineups, this is where you go to find out.