One of the great, eccentric characters to come out of the New York Greenwich
Village scene and the American folk music revival of the early 1960s, mandolin
player David Grisman mixed together bluegrass, jazz and country into an
improvised, rootsy sound that his good friend Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead
dubbed 'dawg music'.
The son of a professional trombonist, Grisman grew up in a fairly straight-laced
family in New Jersey but after his father died when he was ten, he found an
outlet in early rock & roll and the popular folk-pop of the Kingston Trio.
Forming his own folk...