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Two High String Band
David Grisman, Vassar Clements
Producer: Two High String Band
Blue Corn Music, 2003
1 CD
Catalogue #: 301
EAN: 0677967030120
UPC: 677967030120
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This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Two High String Band: Billy Bright (vocals, mandolin, mandola); Brian Smith (vocals, guitar); Bryn Bright (vocals, acoustic bass); Geoff Union (guitar).
Additional personnel: David Grisman (mandolin); Vassar Clements (fiddle).
Recorded at Shining Castle Studio, Austin, Texas.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Tracklist
David Grisman
Though mandolinist David Grisman is counted among the most influential bluegrass musicians of all time, his influence is ironically in part due to his reluctance to play straight-ahead bluegrass. As a New York City-raised Jew, Grisman was an atypical country musician, and originally found success as part of the early 1960s folk revival scene. He later moved to San Francisco, along the way collaborating extensively with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. In 1975 he formed the genre-bending David Grisman Quartet, which served as a career springboard for a host of now-legendary musicians and combined bluegrass, folk, jazz, and several types of world music. In 1990 Grisman founded the Acoustic Disc label, which allowed him to explore his uniquely un-classifiable "dawg" music without regard for commercial expectations.
Vassar Clements
Fiddler Vassar Clements became known as a bluegrass musician par excellence, playing with Bill Monroe, Jim & Jesse, and others in the 1950s. However, his musical vision was much wider than that, encompassing jazz, blues, and more. In addition to pursuing a solo career, he eventually worked with a host of younger musicians from the country and pop/rock worlds, including Jerry Garcia, Emmylou Harris, David Bromberg, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Clements died at home in 2005, having created a musical legacy that stretched out over more than 50 years.
