She is best known for her work recording live concerts for the Grateful Dead from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, including the Cornell 5/8/77 album.
Her involvement in the music scene and interest in LSD led her to meet and subsequently start working with the Grateful Dead.
[1] In 1968, she landed an apprenticeship recording live sound with Bob Matthews at San Francisco venue the Carousel, which would later become the Fillmore West.
[6] A few years later, Cantor married tour manager Rex Jackson, and they continued to record the Dead's live shows with their own tapes and equipment.
[5] The last, a high school teacher, kept them in his barn for years where they decayed, before he enlisted Rob Eaton, guitarist for the Grateful Dead tribute band Dark Star Orchestra, to help restore them.
In 2012 it was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.
"[9] Cantor-Jackson quit taping shows until 2011, when she was asked to stage manage for Wavy Gravy's 70th birthday party and benefit concert.
She still talks to some of the Grateful Dead's band members and crew[3] and went to a show in Santa Clara during their highly publicized 50th anniversary tour.