• Hooteroll +2 is Jerry Garcia’s first non-Grateful Dead album and includes 2 additional live tracks from the Hooteroll tour in 1972: She Once Lived Here and Sweet Cocaine
• Features the track A Trip To What Next from the original LP, released for the first time on CD
• Includes a seven-piece band, implementing organs, sax and trumpet along with the rock standards of guitars, bass and drums
• Displays his mastery of the electric guitar, and Howard Wales' tricky keyboard work
• Album is reminiscent of the live gigs the duo used to perform at local clubs in the late 1960s where they adopted an "anything goes" and "no expectations" mentality
• Musicians:
o Jerry Garcia (electric guitar) Curly Cook (rhythm guitar)
o Howard Wales (organ, piano) Bill Vitt & Michael Marinelli (drums)
o John Kahn (bass) Ken Balzall (trumpet)
o Martin Fierro (sax/flute)

• Garcia performed with The Grateful Dead for their entire thirty year career (1965-1995)
• Participated in a variety of side projects, including the Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, the Garcia/Grisman acoustic duo, and Legion of Mary
• Co-founded the New Riders of the Purple Sage with John Dawson and David Nelson
• Released several solo albums and contributed to a number of albums by other artists over the years as a session musician