Live on the Radio (Acoustic Disc ACD-AO 50023) is a broadcast recording from David Grisman and Harley "Red" Allen, preserving a live performance from the duo in the informal, session-style format that Acoustic Disc — Grisman's San Rafael label — used to document acoustic performers in non-studio contexts. Grisman plays mandolin; Allen plays guitar and sings; Bobby Diamond contributes additional instrumental work; Porter Church holds the bass. Allen — whose long career had included time with the Osborne Brothers and the Greenbriar Boys before extensive work as a solo performer and sideman — brings a direct, warm tenor and easy ensemble sensibility to the radio broadcast context. Grisman's mandolin, moving between the bluegrass tradition Allen represented and the jazz-inflected approach Grisman had developed through the David Grisman Quintet, finds a comfortable common ground in the live acoustic format.
Tracklist
- 1 Thinking tonight of my blue eyes
- 2 Bluegrass chat
- 3 Boil 'em cabbage down
- 4 We live in two different worlds
- 5 Pike County Breakdown alt version 2:36
- 6 We Can’t Be Darlings Anymore alt version
- 7 Someone Took My Place With You alt version 2:46
- 8 Interview
- 9 Down the Road alt version 2:40
- 10 Love Please Come Home alt version 2:20
- 11 Introduction to Bluegrass Country
- 12 Out on the Ocean alt version 2:54
- 13 So long
- 14 Panhandle country
