David, known to friends and fans as "Dawg" a nickname given to him by legendary rocker Jerry Garcia, celebrates # 66 Today!
His musical tastes seem to know no boundaries - he's recorded and played live with everyone from Jerry Garcia to Stéphane Grappelli.
In 1967, Grisman was in a psychedelic rock group called Earth Opera with Peter Rowan. In 1973, Grisman joined Rowan, Vassar Clements, Jerry Garcia and John Kahn to form the bluegrass group Old and in the Way. In 1974, Grisman, Rowan, Greene, and Kahn joined Bill Keith, Clarence White, and John Guerin in the group Muleskinner. In 1974, Grisman was also in The Great American Music Band. Then in 1975, he started his own band: the David Grisman Quintet.
"Dawg Music" is what he calls his mixture of bluegrass and Django Reinhardt-Stéphane Grappelli-influenced jazz, as highlighted on his 1977 album "Hot Dawg".
In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music.
- Grisman, along with New Grass Revival, are generally considered the modern day interpreters of the new bluegrass-influenced fusion sound, sometimes called newgrass.
- The documentary Grateful Dawg (2000) chronicles the deep friendship between Jerry Garcia and David Grisman.
- David Grisman appeared on the Grateful Dead's album American Beauty (1970). To this day, Grisman complains (jokingly) of how Jerry Garcia vetoed the length of the mandolin part featured on the studio version of "Ripple".
Here are a few videos of the various Grisman contributions to acoustic music.
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