''Dawg Duos'' is a collaborative bluegrass album by

David Grisman David Jay Grisman (born March 23, 1945) is an American mandolinist. His music combines bluegrass, folk, and jazz in a genre he calls "Dawg music". He founded the record label Acoustic Disc, which issues his recordings and those of other acousti ...

and 12 different artists, released in 1999. Each of them performs a duo with Grisman on mandolin or mandola. The instruments are as diverse as drums, accordion, autoharp, besides banjo, guitar, string bass, and violin. []. This album can be compared with similar effort by

Béla Fleck Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (born July 10, 1958) is an American banjo player. An acclaimed virtuoso, he is an innovative and technically proficient pioneer and ambassador of the banjo, playing music from bluegrass, jazz, classical, rock and various ...

, ''Double Time (Béla Fleck album), Double Time'', where Grisman performs duo with Fleck on one of the tracks.

Track listing

# Mando-Bass boogie Sonata (Grisman) 3:01 # Clinch Mountain Windmills (Legrand, Stanley) 5:46 # Mandoharp Fantasy (Grisman) 3:38 # Buttons and Bows (Evans, Livingston) 5:27 # Caprice for CM (Grisman) 4:58 # Trinidadian Rag (Brozman, Grisman) 4:52 # Anouman (Reinhardt) 7:08 # John Johanna 2:55 # Swingin' Sorento 4:23 # New Delhi Duo (Grisman, Hussain) 9:38 #

Mule Skinner Blues "Blue Yodel no. 8, Mule Skinner Blues" (a.k.a. "Muleskinner Blues", and "Muleskinner's Blues") is a classic country song written by Jimmie Rodgers. The song was first recorded by Rodgers in 1930 and has been recorded by many artists since then, a ...

(Christian, Rodgers, Vaughn) 1:44 # Old Souls (Barrio, Grisman, Lage, Reeves) 8:14

Personnel

- mandolin, mandola (1-12) *

Edgar Meyer Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is an American bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. He has won seven Grammy Awards and been nominated ten times. Meyer is a member of the Telluride Bluegrass ...

- bass (1) *

- banjo (2) * Bryan Bowers - autoharp (3) *

Hal Blaine Hal Blaine (born Harold Simon Belsky; February 5, 1929 – March 11, 2019) was an American drummer and session musician, thought to be among the most recorded studio drummers in the music industry, claiming over 35,000 sessions and 6,000 singles. ...

- drums (4) *

Mark O'Connor Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player, composer, guitarist, and mandolinist whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he has won six Country Music Association Mu ...

- violin (5) *

Bob Brozman Bob Brozman (March 8, 1954 – April 23, 2013) was an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist. Biography Brozman was born to a Jewish family in Long Island, New York, and began playing the guitar when he was six. He was an adjunct professor ...

- national guitar (6) *

Denny Zeitlin Denny Zeitlin (born April 10, 1938) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. Since 1963, he has recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the ...

- piano (7) *

Mike Seeger Mike Seeger (August 15, 1933August 7, 2009) was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who mainly played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, harmonica, mandolin, dobro, jaw harp, ...

- banjo (8) * Jim Boggio - accordion (9) * Zakir Hussain - percussion (10) *

Vassar Clements Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was an American jazz, Swing music, swing, and Bluegrass music, bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borro ...

- violin (11) *

Julian Lage Julian Price Lage ( ; born December 25, 1987) is an American guitarist and composer. A child prodigy, Lage performed at the 2000 Grammy Awards at age 12, and at 15 became a faculty member of the Stanford Jazz Workshop. He released his debut a ...

- guitar (12)

References

{{Authority control Acoustic Disc albums David Grisman albums John Hartford albums 1999 albums 1999 collaborative albums Instrumental duet albums