A mandolin player who recorded with The Grateful Dead is suing YouTube for posting his videos illegally. David Grisman, nicknamed "Dawg" by former Dead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia, filed the ...

David “Dawg” Grisman Preps ‘Bare Bones Volume II’ Duo Collection with Jerry Garcia nting Bare Bones Volume II – Other Tunes & Arrangements. This 16-track collection features original duo takes on ...

Sam Grisman is a bass player, music appreciator, and bandleader who grew up in Mill Valley, California in a home where some of the great acoustic music of our time was being recorded on a regular ...

Probably the most striking and telling segment in "Grateful Dawg," a new documentary on the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and noted mandolinist David Grisman's musical relationship, was captured… By ...

Since the 1960s, David Grisman has enchanted listeners with his advanced approach to blending bluegrass, folk, and jazz styles, which informs his self-titled potion of Dawg music. In celebration of ...

Feature excerpted from the magazine for Billboard.com. By Billboard Staff With the David Grisman Quintet’s first new recording in seven years, the pioneering acoustic string-music veteran has really ...

David Grisman David Grisman has announced the arrival of his new website, www.acousticoasis.com, featuring new and previously unreleased projects that are now available as high-quality digital ...

Here are some similar artists who, like Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, blend folk, bluegrass, and acoustic creativity with expressive playing and rich collaborations: It dates back to at least 1823 ...

Back when the United States was busy celebrating its 200th birthday, David Grisman introduced a new, quintessentially American sound on the eponymous 1976 album “David Grisman Quintet.” The mandolin ...

It’s always a mystery why a person responds to one kind of music more than another. Often it’s a result of the time and place that someone went through during their teens and 20s, but some people just ...

"I never wanted to have a record company," says David Grisman, the Northern California mandolinist extraordinaire and pioneer of the instrumental bluegrass/folk/jazz blend known as new acoustic music.