The Gasoline Brothers: Bluegrass Pickin' and Singing presents David Grisman and Tony Rice in informal duet mode, the loose, off-the-cuff setting that has produced some of their most engaging recordings since their first collaborations in the David Grisman Quintet of the late 1970s. Released after Rice's death in late 2020, the album draws on archival material captured during the long stretch when illness had taken Rice's singing voice and eventually his playing as well. What survives is the chemistry that defined their partnership across four decades — Rice's harmonically open guitar voicings against Grisman's percussive mandolin, both players listening as carefully as they're playing. The repertoire mixes standards and the kind of less-traveled material the two favored in private settings. The album functions as both a coda and a reminder of how completely their duet language had become one of the foundations of modern acoustic music.
Tracklist
- 1 Old Joe Clark alt version 2:33
- 2 Don’t Give Your Heart to a Rambler alt version 2:29
- 3 Pig in a Pen alt version 2:30
- 4 Fireball Mail Source Recording 3:06
- 5 Honey You Don’t Know My Mind alt version 3:39
- 6 Salt Creek alt version 3:48
- 7 On and On alt version 2:46
- 8 Free Born Man alt version 2:48
- 9 Dusty MIller / Red Haired Boy 2:04
- 10 Don’t Give Your Heart to a Rambler alt version 2:47
- 11 Fretted Frivolity 0:20
- 12 Way Downtown alt version 2:43
- 13 Cluck Old Hen alt version 2:34
- 14 Till the End of the World Rolls Round alt version 2:49
- 15 Back Up and Push alt version 3:27
- 16 Maybe You Will Change Your Mind alt version
