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David Grisman (born March 23, 1945 in Hackensack, New Jersey
Hackensack, New Jersey

Hackensack is a City in Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States and the county seat of Bergen County, New Jersey. Although informally called Hackensack, it was officially named New Barbadoes Township, Bergen County, New Jersey until 1921....
) is a bluegrass
Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has its own roots in Folk music of Ireland, Music of Scotland, Music of Wales and Folk Music of England traditional music....
/newgrass
Progressive bluegrass

Progressive bluegrass is one of two major subgenres of bluegrass music. It is also known as newgrass, a term attributed to New Grass Revival member Ebo Walker)....
 mandolin
Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik...
ist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc
Acoustic Disc

Acoustic Disc is the name of the record label founded by mandolinist David Grisman, in 1990 in music. This independent record label's focus is acoustic music from all genres of music....
 record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental
Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments....
 music.

man grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey
Hackensack, New Jersey

Hackensack is a City in Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States and the county seat of Bergen County, New Jersey. Although informally called Hackensack, it was officially named New Barbadoes Township, Bergen County, New Jersey until 1921....
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David Grisman
David Grisman (born March 23, 1945 in Hackensack, New Jersey
Hackensack, New Jersey

Hackensack is a City in Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States and the county seat of Bergen County, New Jersey. Although informally called Hackensack, it was officially named New Barbadoes Township, Bergen County, New Jersey until 1921....
) is a bluegrass
Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has its own roots in Folk music of Ireland, Music of Scotland, Music of Wales and Folk Music of England traditional music....
/newgrass
Progressive bluegrass

Progressive bluegrass is one of two major subgenres of bluegrass music. It is also known as newgrass, a term attributed to New Grass Revival member Ebo Walker)....
 mandolin
Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik...
ist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc
Acoustic Disc

Acoustic Disc is the name of the record label founded by mandolinist David Grisman, in 1990 in music. This independent record label's focus is acoustic music from all genres of music....
 record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental
Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments....
 music.

Biography

Grisman grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey
Hackensack, New Jersey

Hackensack is a City in Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States and the county seat of Bergen County, New Jersey. Although informally called Hackensack, it was officially named New Barbadoes Township, Bergen County, New Jersey until 1921....
. He started his musical career in 1963 as a member of Even Dozen Jug Band
Even Dozen Jug Band

The Even Dozen Jug Band was founded in 1963 by Stefan Grossman and Peter Siegel in New York City. Other members were David Grisman , Steve Katz , Maria Muldaur , Joshua Rifkin , and John Sebastian ....
. His nickname, "Dawg" was affectionately assigned by his close friend Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia

Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group....
 in 1973 (the two met in 1964 at a Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe

William Smith Monroe was an United States musician who helped develop the style of music known as bluegrass music, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky....
 show at Sunset Park in West Grove, PA). "Dawg Music" is what he calls his mixture of bluegrass and Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt

Jean-Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt was a Belgian Gypsy jazz guitarist.One of the first prominent European jazz musicians, Reinhardt remains one of the most renowned jazz guitarists due to his innovative and distinctive playing....
-Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli

St?phane Grappelli was a French people jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first of all-string jazz bands....
-influenced jazz, as highlighted on his 1977 album "Hot Dawg". Stephane Grappelli played on a couple of tracks on the Hot Dawg album and then the 1981 recording "Stephane Grappelli and David Grisman Live". It was Grisman's combination of Reinhardt-era Jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, bluegrass
Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has its own roots in Folk music of Ireland, Music of Scotland, Music of Wales and Folk Music of England traditional music....
, folk
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
, Old World
Old World

The Old World consists of those parts of Earth known to Europeans, Asians, and Africans in the 15th century....
 Mediterranean string band
String band

This article is about the style of old-time American music. The term string band also referred to the ensembles now known as scratch bands, part of the music of the Virgin Islands....
 music, as well as modern Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion

Fusion or, more specifically, jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a musical genre that merges jazz with elements of other styles of music, particularly funk, Rock and roll, R&B, electronic music, and world music, but also pop music, classical music, and folk music, or sometimes even Heavy metal music, reggae, ska, country music, hip hop...
 that came to embody "Dawg" music.

Grisman's father had been a professional trombonist at one time, and he had young David take piano lessons at the age of seven. In the early 1950s, Grisman heard the beginnings of rock 'n' roll, and was influenced by pop music and everything he heard. Grisman's father died when he was 10, and David drifted away from the piano. He took it up again when he was about 13 or 14, but then discovered folk music
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 through the Kingston Trio; a group that became popular during the American folk music revival
American folk music revival

The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States in the 1950s to mid-1960s. Its roots went earlier, of course, since traditional folk music has thousands of years of history, and performers like Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, and Cisco Houston had enjoyed a limited general popularity in decades prior to the 1950s....
.

David, and three friends from his school, then met folklorist and musician Ralph Rinzler
Ralph Rinzler

Ralph Rinzler was the co-founder of the annual Folk Life Festival on the Mall every summer in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a curator for American art, music, and folk culture at the Smithsonian Institution....
 in Passaic, New Jersey
Passaic, New Jersey

Passaic is a City in Passaic County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 67,861....
, and became greatly influenced by Rinzler's vast knowledge on the subject of traditional music
Traditional music

Traditional music is the term now used in the terminology of Grammy Awards, for what used to be called "folk music". Full details of this change can be found in the article World music terminology....
. After that, David knew what he wanted to do with his life; and Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village , often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the lower west side of southern Manhattan in New York City....
 in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 was bustling with folk musicians by this time. In 1963, Grisman was in the Even Dozen Jug Band
Even Dozen Jug Band

The Even Dozen Jug Band was founded in 1963 by Stefan Grossman and Peter Siegel in New York City. Other members were David Grisman , Steve Katz , Maria Muldaur , Joshua Rifkin , and John Sebastian ....
, and they recorded an album that year on Elektra Records
Elektra Records

Elektra Records is a now-dormant United States record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group....
.

Grisman did a Red Allen
Red Allen (bluegrass)

Harley "Red" Allen was a bluegrass singer and guitarist known for his powerful tenor voice....
 and Frank Wakefield
Frank Wakefield

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wakefield is a legendary American mandolin player. is notable as a great bluegrass music player and for his significant innovations that have shaped the way many musicians play the mandolin....
 session for Folkways Records
Folkways Records

Folkways Records is a record label that documents folk and world music. It is owned by the Smithsonian Institution....
 in 1963, but didn't play with Red Allen and the Kentuckians until 1966. Grisman played mandocello
Mandocello

The mandocello is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. The mandocello is played with a plectrum and is fretted. Mandocello construction is similar to that of the mandolin....
 on Tom Paxton
Tom Paxton

Thomas Richard Paxton is an United States folk music singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years....
's album "Morning Again" (Elektra, 1967).

In 1967, Grisman was in a psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock

CharacteristicsThe musical style typically features electric guitars, 12 strings being preferred for their 'jangle'; elaborate studio effects - backwards taping, panning , phasing, long delay loops and extreme reverb; exotic instrumentation, with a particular fondness for the sitar and tabla; A strong keyboard presence, especially Hammond, Far...
 group called Earth Opera
Earth Opera

Earth Opera were an American psychedelic rock group from the late 1960s featuring Peter Rowan and David Grisman.Both Rowan and Grisman were virtuoso folk and Bluegrass music performers in Boston clubs, who became caught up in the changes in the music scene in the mid 1960s....
 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
Old and in the Way

Old and in the Way was a bluegrass music supergroup in the 1970s. The group performed traditional tunes such as "Pig in a Pen" as well as bluegrass-flavoured versions of The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses " and Peter Rowan's "Panama Red"....
. 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.

Grisman also played mandocello
Mandocello

The mandocello is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. The mandocello is played with a plectrum and is fretted. Mandocello construction is similar to that of the mandolin....
 on Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, California. Raitt is best known for her songs "Nick of Time ", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneaking Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." Raitt is also an avid political activist and has received nine Gra...
's album, Sweet Forgiveness
Sweet Forgiveness

Sweet Forgiveness is the sixth album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1977....
 (1977). In 1977, the David Grisman Quintet released their first album.

In addition to performing with the DGQ (David Grisman Quintet), David Grisman also performs with his bluegrass group, the DGBX (David Grisman Bluegrass Experience). Other members of the DGBX are Keith Little on banjo, Chad Manning on fiddle, Jim Nunally on guitar, Samson Grisman on upright bass.

Accompanists


Some of the musicians that have played with David Grisman, or have been part of the DGQ (David Grisman Quintet), include: Rob Wasserman
Rob Wasserman

Rob Wasserman is a Bass guitar player who has played with a wide variety of illustrious artists including Lou Reed, Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia,Bruce Cockburn,Van Morrison,Rickie Lee Jones, Brian Wilson,Elvis Costello,Mark Morris,Aaron Neville,Chris Whitley,Studs Terkel,Pete Seeger,Neil Young,Ani di Franco, Banyan ,Oingo Boingo and many others....
, Denny Zeitlin
Denny Zeitlin

Denny Zeitlin is a jazz pianist born in Chicago, Illinois on April 10, 1938.He originally had classical piano training, but then switched to medicine....
, Tony Rice
Tony Rice

Tony Rice is an acoustic music guitarist and Bluegrass music musician.Rice spans the range of acoustic music, from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced "Spacegrass" music, to songwriter-oriented folk music....
, Doc Watson
Doc Watson

Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson is an United States guitar player, songwriter and singer of Bluegrass music, American folk music, country music, blues and gospel music....
, Peter Rowan, John Carlini, Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor

Mark O'Connor is a widely known professional fiddler, prominent in country music and in classical music. As a teenager he won national championships on the guitar, mandolin as well as the fiddle....
, Béla Fleck
Béla Fleck

B?la Fleck is an American banjo virtuoso. He is best known for his work with the band B?la Fleck and the Flecktones, with bassist Victor Wooten, saxophonist Jeff Coffin, and percussionist Future Man....
, Clarence White
Clarence White

Clarence White was a guitar player for Nashville West, The Byrds, Muleskinner , and the Kentucky Colonels . His parents were French-Canadians from New Brunswick, Canada....
, Bob Brozman
Bob Brozman

Bob Brozman is an USA guitarist and ethnomusicologist.He has performed in a number of styles such as blues, Gypsy jazz, Calypso music, ragtime, Hawaiian and Caribbean music....
, Mike Auldridge
Mike Auldridge

Mike Auldridge is widely acknowledged as a premier resophonic guitar player. He played with The Seldom Scene for many years, creating a fusion of bluegrass music with jazz, folk music and rock music....
, Mike Seeger
Mike Seeger

Mike Seeger is an United States folk music and folklorist.He was exposed to traditional music through his mother and father , who worked with Musicology John Lomax and Alan Lomax....
, David Bromberg
David Bromberg

David Bromberg is an United States guitarist. Bromberg has an eclectic style, playing bluegrass music, blues, folk music, jazz, country and western, and rock & roll equally well....
, Stephane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli

St?phane Grappelli was a French people jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first of all-string jazz bands....
, Martin Taylor
Martin Taylor

Martin Taylor MBE is a highly respected British jazz guitarist who has performed in groups, guitar ensembles and as an accompanist to many of the world?s most famous musicians....
, Del McCoury
Del McCoury

Delano Floyd McCoury is an United States bluegrass musician. As leader of the Del McCoury Band, he plays guitar and sings lead vocals along with his two sons, Ronnie McCoury and Rob McCoury, who play mandolin and banjo respectively....
, Ralph Stanley
Ralph Stanley

Ralph Stanley , also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, is a legendary United States of America Bluegrass music artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing....
, Jon Sholle
Jon Sholle

Jon Sholle, born April 2, 1949 in New York City, is an American guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and musician who plays mainly jazz, Bluegrass music, Rock_, Country_, American_folk_music_revival, and folk music....
, Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs

Earl Eugene Scruggs is a musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger style on the 5-string banjo that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music....
, John Hartford
John Hartford

John Cowan Hartford was an United States folk music, country music and Bluegrass music composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore....
, Beppe Gambetta
Beppe Gambetta

Beppe Gambetta is an Italy musician born in Genoa in 1952. He defines himself an acoustic guitarist, his passions include folk songs and flatpicking....
, Vassar Clements
Vassar Clements

Vassar Clements was an United States virtuoso Jazz music and Bluegrass music fiddler....
, Richard Greene
Richard Greene (fiddle player)

Richard Greene is a violinist and "one of the most innovative and influential fiddle players of all time"....
, Mike Marshall
Mike Marshall (bluegrass musician)

Mike Marshall is an United States mandolin player and multi-instrumentalist who grew up in central Florida and now lives in Oakland, California....
, Darol Anger
Darol Anger

Darol Anger is an United States violinist, born in 1953....
 (Turtle Island String Quartet
Turtle Island String Quartet

The Turtle Island String Quartet is a San Francisco Bay Area based jazz string quartet formed in 1985 and still actively touring worldwide and recording ....
), Sam Bush
Sam Bush

Sam Bush is an United States Bluegrass music mandolin player considered an originator of the Progressive bluegrass style....
, Pat Barnick, Joe Craven
Joe Craven

Joe Craven is a Freestyle Folk, World and Roots music multi-instrumentalist and singer. He plays a wide variety of string instruments, including fiddle, mandolin, and percussion, including anything he can get his hands on, such as a pickling jar, a credit card, or a jawbone....
, Todd Phillips, Jim Kerwin, Enrique Coria
Enrique Coria

Enrique "Quique" Coria is a guitarist from Dique Los Molinos, Argentina. He has appeared on over 400 recordings in South America and the US including with David Grisman's DGQ ....
, Frank Vignola, George Marsh, Matt Eakle, Grant Gordy and the Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet

Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California....
.

Notable

  • Grisman, along with New Grass Revival
    New Grass Revival

    New Grass Revival was a progressive bluegrass band from 1971 to 1989....
     are generally considered the modern day interpreters of the new bluegrass-influenced fusion sound, sometimes called newgrass
    Progressive bluegrass

    Progressive bluegrass is one of two major subgenres of bluegrass music. It is also known as newgrass, a term attributed to New Grass Revival member Ebo Walker)....
    .
  • The documentary Grateful Dawg
    Grateful Dawg

    Grateful Dawg is a documentary film from 2000 which chronicles the friendship and musical relationship of musicians Jerry Garcia and David Grisman....
     (2000) chronicles the deep friendship between Jerry Garcia and David Grisman.
  • David Grisman appeared on the Grateful Dead's
    Grateful Dead

    The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
     American Beauty
    American Beauty (album)

    American Beauty is the fifth album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between August and September 1970 and originally released in November 1970 by Warner Bros....
     1970 album. To this day, Grisman complains (jokingly) of how Jerry Garcia vetoed the length of the mandolin part featured on the studio version of "Ripple
    American Beauty (album)

    American Beauty is the fifth album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between August and September 1970 and originally released in November 1970 by Warner Bros....
    ".
  • "Dawggy Mountain Breakdown" is NPR
    National Public Radio

    National Public Radio is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national Radio syndication to 797 public radio List of NPR stations in the United States....
    's Car Talk
    Car Talk

    Car Talk is a Talk radio broadcast weekly on National Public Radio stations throughout the United States and elsewhere. Its subjects are automobiles and repair, and it often takes humorous turns....
    's theme music
    Theme music

    The phrase theme music usually refers to that of a radio programming, television program, or movie. It is a Musical composition that is often written specifically for that show, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits....
    .
  • David Grisman sued YouTube
    YouTube

    YouTube is a Video hosting service website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005....
     in May 2007, complaining in federal court that YouTube should be required to prevent individuals from posting recordings of Grisman's music (rather than that Grisman should be responsible for licensing and policing his own copyrights).


Discography

  • With Even Dozen Jug Band
    Even Dozen Jug Band

    The Even Dozen Jug Band was founded in 1963 by Stefan Grossman and Peter Siegel in New York City. Other members were David Grisman , Steve Katz , Maria Muldaur , Joshua Rifkin , and John Sebastian ....
    • Even Dozen Jug Band - 1964
  • With Old and in the Way
    Old and in the Way

    Old and in the Way was a bluegrass music supergroup in the 1970s. The group performed traditional tunes such as "Pig in a Pen" as well as bluegrass-flavoured versions of The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses " and Peter Rowan's "Panama Red"....
    • Old and in the Way
      Old and in the Way (album)

      Old and in the Way is the self-titled first album by the bluegrass music band Old and in the Way. It was recorded in October 1973 at the Boarding House in San Francisco....
       1975
    • That High Lonesome Sound
      That High Lonesome Sound

      That High Lonesome Sound is the second live release of bluegrass music by Old and in the Way. Like the first one , it was recorded at the Boarding House in San Francisco in October, 1973....
       1996
    • Breakdown
      Breakdown (Old and in the Way album)

      'Breakdown' is the third live release of bluegrass music by Old and in the Way.Like the first and second ones , it was recorded at the Boarding House in San Francisco in October 1973....
       1997
    • Old and in the Gray
      Old and in the Gray (album)

      Old and in the Gray is an album released by the surviving members of Old and in the Way. It was released on the Acoustic Disc record label in 2002....
       2002
  • Garcia & Grisman
    • Garcia/Grisman - 1992
    • Not for Kids Only
      Not for Kids Only

      Not for Kids Only is the name of an album of children's songs released by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. Most of the songs come from the Southeast region of the United States....
       - 1993
    • Shady Grove
      Shady Grove (Garcia/Grisman album)

      Shady Grove is the name of an acoustic album by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. It was released on the Acoustic Disc record label in 1996. The album was produced by Garcia and Grisman for Dawg Productions....
       - 1996
    • So What
      So What (Garcia/Grisman album)

      So What is an acoustic Jazz music album by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. It was released on the Acoustic Disc record label in 1998....
       - 1998
    • The Pizza Tapes
      The Pizza Tapes

      The Pizza Tapes is an acoustic album by the American musicians Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and Tony Rice. The album was made over a series of two evenings in 1993 featuring completely unrehearsed songs recorded in Grisman's own recording studio....
       (featuring Tony Rice
      Tony Rice

      Tony Rice is an acoustic music guitarist and Bluegrass music musician.Rice spans the range of acoustic music, from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced "Spacegrass" music, to songwriter-oriented folk music....
      ) – 2000
    • Grateful Dawg
      Grateful Dawg (soundtrack)

      Grateful Dawg is the soundtrack to the 2000 Grateful Dawg. It is a collaboration between Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. It was released on the Acoustic Disc record label....
       - 2001
    • Been All Around This World
      Been All Around This World

      Released in 2004 in music, Been All Around this World, is an acoustic collaboration between Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. It was released on the Acoustic Disc record label....
       - 2004
  • Solo, with others, and with DGQ (David Grisman Quintet)
    • Soundtrack for Roger Corman's 1976 Film EAT MY DUST starring Ron Howard
    • The David Grisman Quintet - 1977
    • Hot Dawg - 1978
    • Quintet '80 - 1980
    • Early Dawg - 1980
    • Stephane Grappelli/David Grisman Live - 1981
    • Mondo Mando - 1981
    • Here Today - 1982
    • David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas - 1983
    • Dawg Jazz/Dawg Grass - 1983
    • Mandolin Abstractions [live] - 1983
    • Acousticity - 1985
    • Svingin' with Svend - 1987
    • Home Is Where the Heart Is - 1988
    • Dawg '90 - 1990
    • Bluegrass Reunion - 1992
    • Common Chord - 1993
    • David Grisman Rounder Compact Disc - 1993
    • Dawgwood - 1993
    • Tone Poems: The Songs Of The Great Vintage Guitars And Mandolins - 1994
    • Songs Of Our Fathers - 1995
    • Dawganova - 1995
    • Tone Poems 2: The Sounds Of The Great Jazz Guitars, Mandolins, Mandolas, Mandocellos - 1995
    • DGQ-20 - 1996
    • Doc & Dawg
      Doc & Dawg

      Doc & Dawg is the title of a recording by United States Folk music artist Doc Watson and mandolinist David Grisman, released in 1997.Mostly recorded at Grisman's home over a period of years, the recordings are informal....
       - 1997
    • I'm Beginning To See The Light - 1999
    • Retrograss
      Retrograss

      Retrograss is a bluegrass music album by David Grisman, John Hartford and Mike Seeger. It was released on the Acoustic Disc record label in 1999....
       - 1999
    • Dawg Duos - 1999
    • Tone Poems 3: The Sounds of the Great Slide & Resophonic Instruments - 2000
    • New River - 2001
    • Traversata [live] - 2001
    • Dawgnation - 2002
    • Life of Sorrow - 2003
    • Hold On We're Strummin - 2003
    • New Shabbos Waltz - 2006
    • Dawg's Groove [live] - 2006
    • DGBX - 2006
    • Classic Dawg [DVD] [live] - 2006
    • Satisfied - 2007


External links

  • - An extensive collection of reviews
  • David talks about his roots in 1960's Greenwich Village
    Greenwich Village

    Greenwich Village , often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the lower west side of southern Manhattan in New York City....
     and his ideas about acoustic music.