What a nice little gift for all us Grateful Dead/eclectic music fans. This sweet, musically magical film about the friendship and collaborations of the late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia and ...
Like last year's The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack, Grateful Dawg is an affectionate, familial documentary giving credit to an unsung music hero. He's David Grisman, an obscure mandolin and banjo player ...
If it's true the Grateful Dead epitomize the counter culture of the Sixties, it's also true the iconic group embraced the following decade on its very own terms, at least at the outset of the period.
To Gillian Grisman, Jerry Garcia was never a rock star but simply the outgoing old hippie guitar player who showed up scores of times in the early 1990s at her home in Northern California's Mill ...
Jerry Garcia’s trusted bluegrass partner, David Grisman, does not make many public appearances these days. Before Friday night’s arrival in Seattle, the artist hadn’t played in front of a live ...
For more than 40 years, mandolinist and composer David Grisman has been busy creating “dawg” music, a blend of swing, bluegrass, Latin, jazz and gypsy. In doing so he inspired a new genre of acoustic ...
Does anything get the blood pulsing quite like a good setlist played with style and energy? “Don’t Let Go,” “Jackaroo,” “Catfish John,” “Grateful Dawg,” “Iko Iko” and “Gomorrah” was just a quarter of ...
It may not be common knowledge, but for some years a titan of American bluegrass has resided in Seattle’s backyard. David “Dawg” Grisman, a mandolinist and composer whose improvisatory licks have made ...
Although Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy examines only a small stretch of Gilbert and Sullivan's career, it seems to capture much more of their relationship, while also offering considerable commentary on ...
For more than 40 years, mandolinist and composer David Grisman has been busy creating "dawg" music, a blend of swing, bluegrass, Latin, jazz and gypsy. In doing so he inspired a new genre of acoustic ...