''Dawg Duos'' is a collaborative bluegrass album by

David Grisman David Grisman (born March 23, 1945) is an American mandolinist. His music combines bluegrass, folk, and jazz in a genre he calls "Dawg music". He founded the record label Acoustic Disc, which issues his recordings and those of other acoustic mu ...

and 12 different artists, released in 1999. Each of them performs a duo with Grisman on mandolin or mandola. The instruments are as diverse as drums, accordion, autoharp, besides banjo, guitar, string bass, and violin. []. This album can be compared with similar effort by

Béla Fleck Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (born July 10, 1958) is an American banjo player. An acclaimed virtuoso, he is an innovative and technically proficient pioneer and ambassador of the banjo, bringing the instrument from its bluegrass roots to jazz, classi ...

, ''Double Time (Béla Fleck album), Double Time'', where Grisman performs duo with Fleck on one of the tracks.

Track listing

# Mando-Bass boogie Sonata (Grisman) 3:01 # Clinch Mountain Windmills (Legrand, Stanley) 5:46 # Mandoharp Fantasy (Grisman) 3:38 # Buttons and Bows (Evans, Livingston) 5:27 # Caprice for CM (Grisman) 4:58 # Trinidadian Rag (Brozman, Grisman) 4:52 # Anouman (Reinhardt) 7:08 # John Johanna 2:55 # Swingin' Sorento 4:23 # New Delhi Duo (Grisman, Hussain) 9:38 # Mule Skinner Blues (Christian, Rodgers, Vaughn) 1:44 # Old Souls (Barrio, Grisman, Lage, Reeves) 8:14

Personnel

- mandolin, mandola (1-12) *

Edgar Meyer Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is an American bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. He has won five Grammy Awards and been nominated seven times. Meyer is a member of the Telluride Bluegrass ...

- bass (1) *

- banjo (2) *

Bryan Bowers Bryan Bowers (born August 18, 1940 in Yorktown, Virginia) is an American autoharp player who is frequently credited with introducing the instrument to new generations of musicians. Career Bowers became very popular with the audience of the comed ...

- autoharp (3) *

Hal Blaine Hal Blaine (born Harold Simon Belsky; February 5, 1929 – March 11, 2019) was an American drummer and session musician, thought to be among the most recorded studio drummers in the music industry, claiming over 35,000 sessions and 6,000 singles. ...

- drums (4) *

Mark O'Connor Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player and composer whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he has won six Country Music Association Musician Of The Year awards ...

- violin (5) *

Bob Brozman Bob Brozman (March 8, 1954 – April 23, 2013) was an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist. Biography Brozman was born to a Jewish family in Long Island, New York, and began playing the guitar when he was six. He performed gypsy jazz, ca ...

- national guitar (6) *

Denny Zeitlin Denny Zeitlin (born April 10, 1938) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. Since 1963, he has recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the ...

- piano (7) *

Mike Seeger Mike Seeger (August 15, 1933August 7, 2009) was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mouth harp, mandolin, dobro, jaw harp, ...

- banjo (8) *

Jim Boggio James Robert Boggio (December 11, 1939–November 6, 1996) was an American accordionist. He died of heart failure in Cotati, California, aged 56. A statue of him stands in La Plaza Park, near the center of Cotati. Career Boggio's profess ...

- accordion (9) *

Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain ( ur, , link=no) is the name of: * Zakir Husain (politician), an Indian politician and former president of India * Zakir Hussain (actor), Bollywood actor * Zakir Hussain (field hockey) (1934–2019), Pakistani field hockey player * ...

- percussion (10) *

Vassar Clements Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and ...

- violin (11) *

Julian Lage Julian Lage ( ; born December 25, 1987) is an American guitarist and composer. Career A child prodigy, Lage was the subject of the 1996 short documentary film ''Jules at Eight''. At 12, he performed at the 2000 Grammy Awards. Three years later ...

- guitar (12)

References

{{Authority control Acoustic Disc albums David Grisman albums John Hartford albums 1999 albums Instrumental duet albums