Jerry Garcia & David Grisman is tagged as: bluegrass, folk, jam, blues, jam band Jerry Garcia; lead guitarist and vocalist with The Grateful Dead, throughout his career, he led the Dead through numerous changes, becoming one of the most famous figures in the history of rock & roll. Simultaneously, Garcia pursued an eclectic array of side projects, ranging from the bluegrass group Old & In the Way to his folky solo recordings. Garcia stayed active as a member of the Grateful Dead and as a solo performer until his death in 1995. 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. 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. A brilliant mandolinist, with roots deep in the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, Grisman’s jazz sensibilities were strong enough to attract the admiration of the HCQ’s Stephane Grappelli, who has toured and recorded with Grisman on occasion. Grisman was already playing the piano, saxophone, and mandolin by the time he was a teenager, taking up ... Read More About Jerry Garcia & David Grisman Biography...  Send Jerry Garcia & David Grisman ringtones to your cell
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