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Name: David Grisman
Date: Friday March 28th, 2008
Time: 1:00pm EDT
Website: www.dawgnet.com
Interviewer: Gracie Muldoon
Description:
David Grisman was born March 23, 1945 and raised in Passaic, NJ. He studied piano and mandolin as a teen, moved to New York City to study English at New York University in 1963. First job as a mandolin player was in 1964 with Red Allen and the Kentuckians. His recording career began in 1966 with the Even Dozen Jug Band, which included Maria Muldaur and John Sebastian. He found himself in demand as a session player; contributed mandolin tracks to Grateful Dead album American Beauty; formed the Great American Music Band with fiddler Richard Greene; joined Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, Vassar Clements, and Peter Rowan to form the bluegrass band, Old and In The Way in 1973, released Old and In The Way in 1974; formed the David Grisman Quintet in 1976; founded record company, Acoustic Disc, in Mill Valley, CA in 1990. David Grisman is normally associated with the bluegrass wing of country music, but his music owes almost as much to jazz as it does to traditional American folk influences. Nominated for a Grammy Award for Home Is Where The Heart Is in 1988, Dawg '90 in 1990, Garcia/Grisman with Jerry Garcia in 1991, and Blue Grass Reunion with Pedersen and Allen in 1992. His last three Grammy nominations were for records on his own Acoustic Disc label.
Because he couldn't think of what to call his unique, highly intricate, harmonically advanced hybrid of acoustic bluegrass, folk, and jazz without leaning toward one idiom or another, he offhandedly decided to call it "dawg music" -- a name which, curiously enough, has stuck. David will be discussing the joint project he did with John Sebastian titled "Satisfied". |
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