Dead Grass (Cedar Glen Music Group, 2000) is a Grateful Dead bluegrass tribute featuring Vassar Clements on fiddle alongside Butch Baldassari on mandolin, Doug Jernigan on pedal steel, Jeff White on vocals, and Reggie Harris and Ryan Harris on rhythm instruments. The album renders Dead classics — "Casey Jones," "Friend of the Devil," "Ripple," and others — in country-acoustic settings that foreground the folk and bluegrass substrate always present in the Dead's music. Clements, who had participated in Old & In the Way (Jerry Garcia's acoustic bluegrass side project) and possessed one of the most versatile fiddle vocabularies in American music, lends the record natural authority. The catalog lists Anders Beck and Michael Arlen Bont of Greensky Bluegrass among the personnel; neither name is documented in available sources for this 2000 release, and both may represent data errors.
Tracklist
- 1 Brown-eyed Women 4:18
- 2 Casey Jones alt version 3:49
- 3 Attics Of My Life 4:23
- 4 Broke-down Palace 4:01
- 5 Alabama Getaway 3:40
- 6 Ripple 4:19
- 7 U.s. Blues 4:38
- 8 Dire Wolf 2:53
- 9 Friend of the Devil alt version 5:07
- 10 It Must Have Been The Roses 4:51
- 11 Mexicali Blues 5:00
