David Grier
Classic Bluegrass
Contemporary Bluegrass
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David Grier is a Washington, D.C.-born flatpicking guitarist whose three-time IBMA Guitar Player of the Year title (1992, 1993, 1995), 1988 Rounder debut "Freewheeling," and seats with Country Gazette and Psychograss have placed him among the most influential acoustic guitarists of his generation — son of Bill Monroe Blue Grass Boy Lamar Grier.
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- Born 1961 in Washington, D.C.; family moved to Nashville when he was three; began guitar at age 6.
- Son of Lamar Grier, banjo player in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in the mid-1960s; grew up around Monroe and the bluegrass elite.
- Cited Clarence White, Tony Rice, and Doc Watson as primary flatpicking influences.
- Named IBMA Guitar Player of the Year three times: 1992, 1993, and 1995.
- Debut Rounder Records solo album "Freewheeling" (1988) helped reshape modern flatpicking guitar.
- Member/sideman with Country Gazette, Doug Dillard's band, Psychograss (with Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, Tony Trischka), and Helen Highwater Stringband (with Shad Cobb, Missy Raines, Mike Compton).
- Has appeared as guitarist on Grammy-nominated bluegrass albums in three different decades.
- Named one of the top ten most influential acoustic guitarists of the 1990s by "Acoustic Guitar" magazine; renowned for his crosspicking technique.
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Panorama1997 · Rounder CD 0417
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Freewheeling1988 · Rounder 0250
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David GrierPlayed on recordings with David Grier
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Stuart DuncanPlayed on recordings with David Grier
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Billy Joe FosterPlayed on recording with David Grier
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Mark SchatzPlayed on recording with David Grier
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Mike ComptonPlayed on recording with David Grier
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Roland WhitePlayed on recording with David Grier
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Todd PhillipsPlayed on recording with David Grier
