Grateful Dawg

In the early '60s, David Grisman and Jerry Garcia were two bluegrass enthusiasts in their early twenties who met after they had seen each other perform. Garcia went on to lead the legendary psychedelic band the Grateful Dead, while Grisman became a world-class mandolin player who blended jazz and ...more

Grateful Dawg is a romanticized remembrance of the collaboration between two musical luminaries, Jerry Garcia and David Grisman -- and its overly fond tone shouldn't be surprising, since it's directed by Grisman's daughter, Gillian, which makes it something less than a complete examination of these men's lives. For example, mention is not even made of Garcia's famously dominating drug life and what effect it had on their work, except for general references to the loose nature of rehearsal ...more