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Early Dawg

David Grisman

Album · 1980 · Sugar Hill SH-3713

Early Dawg, released by Sugar Hill in 1980, is not a record of 1980 playing. It collects live tapes made in 1966, when David Grisman was in his early twenties and had not yet invented the music he became known for.
What it catches is a young mandolin player deep in bluegrass and already pressing at its edges. Del McCoury plays guitar and sings, Jerry McCoury is on bass, with Bill Keith on banjo and Artie Rose on guitar on some tracks. Monroe tunes and Flatt and Scruggs numbers sit beside early Grisman originals - "Sugar Hill Ramble," "Fanny Hill," "Opus 38" and "Opus 57" - several of which he would still be playing thirty years later, by then at the head of a very different band.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Mandolin Rag 1:47
  2. 2 Cedar Hill alt version 3:47
  3. 3 Bluegrass Breakdown alt version 2:54
  4. 4 White House Blues alt version 2:12
  5. 5 Auld Lang Syne alt version 3:23
  6. 6 Cedar Hill 2 2:19
  7. 7 Fanny Hill alt version 3:11
  8. 8 Follow the Leader 2:12
  9. 9 New York Ramble 2:20
  10. 10 Opus 57 alt version 2:54
  11. 11 Opus 38 alt version 3:24
  12. 12 Little Sadie alt version 2:46
  13. 13 Out of Joint 2:24
  14. 14 Sugar Hill Ramble Source Recording David Grisman · key Bb · 143 bpm 2:15
  15. 15 Caravan 3:09
  16. 16 Fanny Hill 2 1:53
  17. 17 Little Maggie alt version 2:44
  18. 18 Bluegrass Twist 3:04
  19. 19 Shenandoah Breakdown alt version 3:13
  20. 20 The Prisoner Song 2:10
  21. 21 John Henry alt version 3:12
  22. 22 Rawhide alt version 2:31
  23. 23 Dark Hollow alt version 2:12
  24. 24 Dear Old Dixie alt version 2:57
  25. 25 Hit Parade of Love alt version 2:33
  26. 26 Hey Hey Bartender 2:10
  27. 27 Salty Dog Blues 1:53
  28. 28 Love Please Come Home alt version 2:20
  29. 29 I Wonder Where You Are Tonight alt version 3:13
  30. 30 Black Mountatin Rag 2:24

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