I very much want to see this film; my husband and I actually met back in the days when we were attending entirely too many Grateful Dead shows & having entirely more fun than was necessary or appropriate! There was always a lot more to Jerry Garcia than dropping acid & the Haight Ashbury; lots of people I knew back then got initially turned on to bluegrass via "Old & In The Way", an album he recorded with David Grisman in the early '70s. The Dead as a band were initially far more influenced by the blues than any other genre; their original frontman, "Pigpen", certainly considered himself a bluesman first & foremost; they recorded some great traditional tunes. Again, touching back on the topics in the "Music/Movies" thread, lots of deadheads learned songs like "Peggy O", "Dark Holler", etc., from the Dead, & then went on to explore that music further.

Sigh. I miss Jerry, too, in truth.