For Record Store Day 2024 David Grisman's grammy nominated album Dawg is receiving its first ever vinyl release, on double vinyl with the four extra tunes originally featured on the 2013 deluxe cd re-issue. The album was recorded with James Kerwin, Mark O'Connor, Matt Glaser, Matt Eakle, John Carlini and Joe Craven.
The album opens with Pupville a super spry bluegrass blues in love the sound of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli, with all sorts of cadences, florid plucked and strummed strings.
Chili Dawg adds a Brazilian Tropicalia feel to the mesmerizing playing. This would be the fanciest Chili Dawg around.
Mad Max feels more like a Pink panther soundtrack tune, than one for Mad Max, this has a shuffling beat, a central bass solo that jumps out.
O'Banion's Wake is played more in a Klezmer style than Irish folk tune, this is quite bucolic, the playing sounds relaxed.
Dawg Daze mixes the fluid fluent bluegrass with 70's easy listening soundtrack music, into an intriguing blend that includes a monster flute funk solo that sounds straight outta Philly.
Lil' Samba lives up to its title, a mellifluous sunny Samba tune, with cool break down, irresistible flow making sure you start moving to the rhythms.
Learned Pigs a jaunty bluegrass jazz tune, with a fine bassline that allows Dave to pick away to his hearts content over it, this is beguiling while also being perfect dinner party background music.
Gypsy Nights is sultry, lazy hazy evenings in fine restaurants, in places like Budapest or Prague where this music can serenade you while enjoying dinner, this has a real supper club jazz feel.
Hot Club Swing takes us back to Paris, those magical recordings by Django and Stephane that were burned into my brain by my dad's insistence on playing them any chance he could get; This has the magical interplay of fiddle and guitar perfectly intertwining, making magical music.
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Sativa it must be time to light up and have a weird dubby drum solo intro, bass joins in ready for a mandolin exhalation of immense proportions, smoke filled room is heading towards some sort of chanted mantra, slowing into a trance like meditation, synapses being caressed, portals opening. Over the 12 minutes a huge Sativa cone has been slowly dissolving minds, creating a joyful peaceful space, Matt Eakle goes on a flautastic flight.
The first of the bonus tunes is Telluride a magnificent hayride to the hills, perfect for a sunny spring day, almost like they are riding in a jitney going to take some lemonade to the miners.
Blue Midnight sat at a Tiki bar sipping extravagant cocktails, perusing the room, looking to change your mood, lift things up on this Blue Midnight mood. By the end of this tune, you should be engaged in conversation with whoever caught your eye.
Opus 38 and it sounds like the devil has once again gone down to Georgia, it's unclear why he left in the first Place, it always felt like home. Resonations taking flight with scraped notes knocking at your door.
The album closes with EMD back in Pink Panther soundtrack territory, with a gentle hot club twist or three.
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