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Bear’s Sonic Journals Presents:
Masterpieces Unearthed from
Owsley’s Famed Archive
John Hammond
Blues at the Boarding House
June 2 & 3, 1973
3 CD set
Sing Out!
Country Joe McDonald
Kate Wolf with Nina Gerber and Ford James
Rosalie Sorrels with Mitch Greenhill
Rhythm Devils (Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann)
Berkeley Community Theater, April 25, 1981
The Chieftains in San Francisco
Johnny Cash
At the Carousel Ballroom
April 24, 1968
Tim Buckley
Carousel Ballroom
June 15-16, 1968
Ali Akbar Khan, with
Indranil Bhattacharya and
Zakir Hussain
Family Dog at the Great Highway
May 29, 1970
2 CD set
Commander Cody &
His Lost Planet Airman
The Family Dog at the Great HighwayMarch 28, 1970
2 CD set
New Riders of
The Purple Sage
August 1969 – June 1970
Five CD Set
Jorma Kaukonen
& Jack Casady
Veterans Memorial Building
June 28, 1969
The Allman Brothers Band
3 CD release with extended material
From all three shows, as played on
February 11, 13, & 14, 1970
Doc and Merle Watson
The Boarding House, May 1 – May 4, 1974
Seven CD Set
The Owsley Stanley Foundation is dedicated to the preservation of “Bear’s Sonic Journals,” 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.
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About The Owsley Stanley Foundation
The Owsley Stanley Foundation is a 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of “Bear’s Sonic Journals,” 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. These analog reel-to-reel recordings are nearing the end of their expected shelf lives and will deteriorate and be lost forever if they are not preserved. The effort to preserve these historically vital recordings is estimated to cost between $300,000 – $400,000. All donations and proceeds from the development of the recordings flow back into the effort to preserve more of Bear’s Sonic Journals and perpetuate Owsley’s legacy, including patronage of the arts in all of its forms. Our staff is entirely comprised of volunteers, and many of the support services necessary to run the organization have been donated by generous contributors that believe in the mission to save this music before it is lost forever.
The "Save The Music!" campaign seeks to raise money to enable the digitization, preservation, and release of Bear's Sonic Journals, a trove of over a thousand live concert recordings from the heart of the psychedelic era. Donations are much appreciated, and are in fact essential to our ability to preserve and release future recordings!
You can donate via our secure form, or send checks made out to the Owsley Stanley Foundation to: Owsley Stanley Foundation PO Box 625 Occidental, Ca 95465. We were officially granted 501(c)(3) nonprofit status by the IRS in December 2012. All donations to the Owsley Stanley Foundation are fully tax deductible.
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