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Temple Cabin Sessions Vol. 1

The Sam Grisman Project

Album · 2023 · SGP Records

Temple Cabin Sessions Volume One is the first release by the Sam Grisman Project, the band led by bassist Sam Grisman, son of David Grisman. It came out in early 2023 and has seven tracks, drawn from the Grateful Dead and from Jerry Garcia’s work with David Grisman: “Stealin’,” “Friend of the Devil,” “New Speedway Boogie,” “Mission in the Rain,” “Catfish John,” “Peggy-O” and “Shady Grove.”

The music was recorded at Temple Cabin Studios, the studio of band member Aaron Lipp in Naples, New York. The material grew out of a request from the promoter of the Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots Festival, who asked Grisman the previous summer to put together players for a set of Garcia and Grisman songs. Ric Robertson sings and plays keyboards, Chris English is the band’s drummer, and Alex Hargreaves, fiddler with Billy Strings, is featured on the record. Reviewers describe a mix of electric songs with drums and organ and acoustic numbers recorded around a single microphone. Grisman takes the lead vocal on “Friend of the Devil,” which adds a final verse that Robert Hunter often sang live.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Stealin' 4:07
  2. 2 Catfish John alt version 5:32
  3. 3 Peggy-O alt version 7:07
  4. 4 Friend of the Devil alt version 6:00
  5. 5 New Speedway Boogie 5:58
  6. 6 Shady Grove alt version 4:34
  7. 7 Mission In The Rain 5:43

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