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The Gasoline Brothers: Bluegrass Pickin’ and Singing

David Grisman and Tony Rice

Album · 2021 · Acoustic Disc ?

The Gasoline Brothers was issued by Acoustic Disc in September 2021, nine months after Tony Rice died on 25 December 2020. Its fifteen tracks are previously unissued traditional bluegrass tunes and songs recorded in the 1970s. By the label’s account, Rice and Grisman called themselves the Gasoline Brothers for the charge they felt playing together, especially at fast tempos, and nearly every tune was recorded in one take.

The music comes from two sessions. The first is a live radio broadcast from a tour of Japan in May 1976, where the band was billed as the Bluegrass Quintet: Rice on guitar, Grisman on mandolin, Bill Keith on banjo, Richard Greene on fiddle and Todd Phillips on bass. The Bluegrass Discography places “Maybe You Will Change Your Mind,” “You Don’t Know My Mind,” “On and On,” “Late Last Night” and “’Til the End of the World Rolls ’Round” in that set. The second is an informal jam recorded later in the decade in Grisman’s living room in Mill Valley, California, with Steve Arkin on banjo and Phillips again on bass. It supplies fiddle tunes including “Old Joe Clark,” “Salt Creek” and a “Dusty Miller”/“Red Haired Boy” medley, and songs such as “Pig in a Pen” and “Free Born Man.” Rice, Grisman, Keith and Arkin all sing.

Rice and Grisman had met while recording for Bill Keith’s first Rounder album. Rice later left the New South and moved to California to join Grisman’s all-instrumental David Grisman Quintet, whose first album appeared in 1977.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Old Joe Clark alt version 3:56
  2. 2 Don’t Give Your Heart to a Rambler alt version 2:29
  3. 3 Pig in a Pen alt version 2:30
  4. 4 Fireball Mail Source Recording Fred Rose · key G · 130 bpm 3:06
  5. 5 Honey You Don’t Know My Mind alt version 3:39
  6. 6 Salt Creek alt version 3:48
  7. 7 On and On alt version 2:46
  8. 8 Free Born Man alt version 2:48
  9. 9 Dusty MIller / Red Haired Boy 2:04
  10. 10 Don’t Give Your Heart to a Rambler alt version 2:47
  11. 11 Fretted Frivolity 0:20
  12. 12 Way Downtown alt version 2:43
  13. 13 Cluck Old Hen alt version 2:34
  14. 14 Till the End of the World Rolls Round alt version 2:49
  15. 15 Back Up and Push alt version 3:27
  16. 16 Maybe You Will Change Your Mind alt version

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