A perfect musical delight for Christmastime! These beautiful, lilting Christmas melodies take you right to the heartland with MarkO Connor and an all-star cast of music greats.Mark O Connor: violin/Renee Fleming: vocals/Sharon Isbin: guitar/Alison Krauss: vocals/Yo-Yo Ma: cello/Edgar Meyer: bass/JaneMonheit: vocals/James Taylor: vocals/Chris Thile: mandolin/Steve Wariner: …
The informal once-in-a lifetime jam session that brought guitar icons Jerry Garcia and Tony Rice together with their mandolin-picking host David Grisman was recorded in Dawg Studios on two successive evenings in February, 1993. The Original Pizza Tapes CD which included only part of that historical meeting, soon became an acoustic classic and one of Acoustic Disc’s most …
For nearly 17 years, Yonder Mountain String Band has redefined bluegrass music, expanding the traditional acoustic genre beyond it’s previously established boundaries by steadily pushing the envelope into the realms of rock n’ roll and improvisation. the result is music that doesn’t stand still, it’s always progressing and breaking unprecedented ground. With their latest album Black Sheep (scheduled …
Forty years ago on a Monday night, a bluegrass band calling themselves Old & in the Way featuring Jerry Garcia on banjo, David Grisman on mandolin, Peter Rowan on guitar, Vassar Clements on fiddle and John Kahn on bass walked on to the stage at The Boarding House in San Francisco. They played again a week later and …
With The Song of the Banjo (Compass Records), her first album since 2009, GRAMMY-winning musician/composer/producer/entrepreneur Alison Brown plants another flag in her journey of musical exploration.Acclaimed as one of today’s finest progressive 5-string banjo players, the 2015 IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award/2014 United States Artist Fellowship recipient and Compass Records co-founder mixes seven masterful originals with six surprising covers …