Here's a piece I did for the San Francisco Classic Voice for our "Essentials" series of great recordings. It was nearly impossible to choose just a dozen Dawg selections, but it was fun to try. What would you choose?
The Essential David Grisman
Here's a piece I did for the San Francisco Classic Voice for our "Essentials" series of great recordings. It was nearly impossible to choose just a dozen Dawg selections, but it was fun to try. What would you choose?
The Essential David Grisman
Just one guy's opinion
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Well done, Paul.
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Thanks for this Paul, well done.
I like how you got it down to a dozen, but managed to include plenty more as BTW’s.
The album with Tommy Emmanuel didn’t do much for me, so I would have swapped it for Songs of Our Fathers. I also would have wanted to include the Muleskinner album, but I don’t know what I would have deleted to make room for it. Maybe Early Dawg?
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Here's my top 10 (in no special order)
Dawg Grass/Dawg Jazz
Don Stover - Things In Life (Dawg plays on every cut)
Early Dawg
The David Grisman Quintet
Old & In The Way
Hot Dawg
Tone Poets
The Pizza Tapes
Man Of Constant Sorrow
Quintet '80
Last edited by Glassweb; Jan-04-2022 at 12:46am.
Nicely done!
I too, loved Songs of Our Father's. But it's hard to find something to swap it with.
Thanks for contributing to this newbie's musical education while I did my morning work today. Good writing and good music
70s stuff was DG at his freshest, imo
- DG Rounder Album
- Muleskinner
- Grisman Quintet
- Tone Poems (1995)
Salute, Mr. Grisman.
My faves are similar to Niles.
Muleskinner Live
David Grisman Quintet
Hot Dawg
Tone Poems w/ Tony
I’ll add:
Traversata, for the Italian theme & a nod to Carlo & Beppe.
I prefer Muleskinner over Old & in the Way, just not a big Jerry fan.
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Thanks for the comments, all. Good choices, too.
Both Hot Dawg and Muleskinner were semifinalists, as were records with Earth Opera (Great American Eagle Tragedy), Red Allen (County 710) and Don Stover (Things in Life), but I was in danger of lumping in all my favorites from early on, so I had to skip a lot of worthy discs in order to do a more representative career-long retrospective. Dawg is nothing if not prolific!
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I would have picked "Dawg 90" over Dawgnova - Dawg 90 was such a strong album and introduced the whole Matt Eckel thing ( recorded with Crusher), and would have included Mondo Mando ( for Cedar Hill and Dawg Funk) - probably choosing that over Dawg Grass/ Dawg Jazz. I agree with the rest.
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maybe not considered because it's a bootleg, but I'll put in a plug for the Pizza Tapes...great improv...fun banter between close friends and so cool to hear Dawg, Jerry and Tony appreciating each other's chops and working out arrangements
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You did an awesome job with that article, Paul!
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I spent a good portion of my night at work last night listening to Grisman albums. (and working too, I promise )
I forgot how much I like Dawg '90. Really good, absolutely recommend! And FolkJazz. Simple, beautiful, appealing to those un-schooled on Dawg music. Good bass.
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Nice article, thanks.
I've got many of those, and a few I had as LPs, but all of those went to the library when my turntable died years ago and parts weren't available. (It was only 30 years old, Yamaha!) One I saw mentioned, Svingin' With Svend, I had tracked down only in cassette form. The "ripped" version of that is still in my iTunes library I am now, of course, tempted to go looking for that live Grappelli album, though. (It never ends...)
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I just picked up a copy of the Svend record for $10 on Discogs. I think I paid $5 for the Grappelli one a while back. I think I have the majority of the Grisman stuff on vinyl now!
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Hot Dawg is just about perfect and, to me, is not an honorable mention. My only quibble with a very nice article; thanks for sharing.
Paul, I, too, like your article. I'd like to ask you, and the group, about the practice of embedding Youtube videos of Dawg's music that, from what I could tell, were not from his official channel, particularly the complete Early Dawg album. Is your article published in a commercial online concern? Though my question may be so clumsily posed as to convey offense or provocation that I don't intend, I wanted to ask, in the genuine spirit of curiosity. Thanks.
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