Grateful Dawg (2000)

Details the deeply rooted musical friendship between Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. Includes live Garcia/Grisman performances as well as rare and unique personal moments from the studio, ... See full summary »

Director:

Gillian Grisman

Stars:

Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Joe Craven

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jerry Garcia	...	Himself
David Grisman	...	Himself
Joe Craven	...	Himself
Jim Kerwin	...	Himself
Rob Bleetstein	...	Himself
Vassar Clements	...	Himself
Dave Dennison	...	Himself - recording engineer
Bela Fleck	...	Himself
Deborah Koons	...	Herself (as Deborah Koons Garcia)
John Goddard	...	Himself - Village Music
Monroe Grisman	...	Himself
Pamela Grisman	...	Herself
Sam Grisman	...	Himself
Justin Kreutzmann	...	Himself - video director
Dexter Johnson	...	Himself - Carmel musician

Storyline

Details the deeply rooted musical friendship between Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. Includes live Garcia/Grisman performances as well as rare and unique personal moments from the studio, backstage and home-style jam sessions. Interviews with friends and family are intertwined with live and archival elements, creating an intimate portrait of Jerry and David's relationship. Traces the Garcia/Grisman connection from their earliest days as budding bluegrassers, through the creation of the legendary Old & In the Way in the mid '70s, to the Garcia/Grisman Band that highlighted their love of traditional acoustic music in the '90s.

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Plot Keywords:

cult music band

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Genres:

Documentary

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for brief language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 July 2002 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Música en el corazón

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$15,077 (USA) (5 October 2001)

Gross:

$359,237 (USA) (1 March 2002)

Company Credits

Production Co:

11th Hour Productions & Entertainment Inc., Acoustic Disc

Technical Specs

Runtime:

81 min

Color:

Black and White Color

Did You Know?

Crazy Credits

Special Thanks ... John D'Urso

User Reviews

Wonderful Documentary

Back in June at the Newport Film Festival (Newport RI) I stumbled across this film between two other shows I had been planning on seeing. It turns out that this was the first showing of the film. This documentary was a very pleasing suprise to me. This film uses interviews and such as do most documentaries. What sets this apart is the intimate "home movie" footage that is present in a lot of the film. This shows Grisiam and Garcia simply playing for the family. After the showing of the film we were lucky enough for Gillian Grisiam to be there and to discuss the film. Much of the footage actual was home movies where a camera was "just set on the TV and turned on." Thank you much for this wonderful documentary.