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

A muso's dream

To their friends, family and admirers they were "beards of a feather", hatched from the same "cosmic egg" (don't'cha love hippies?). That's the late Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia and bluegrass maestro David Grisman - literally plucking Bluegrass back from the 'Special Interest' bracket to continued acclaim.

In this sweet-natured, hugely subjective documentary, the history of their on-off artistic partnership, including five collaborative albums, is explored via jams, home movies and live footage, and their particular strand of folk-tinged music showcased to varying levels of self-indulgence.

As one would expect, the performances here - whether knocked out impromptu in David's living room or on stage - are virtuoso in range and delivery, with pieces including a cover of Jimmy Cliff's 'Sitting Here in Limbo', Dead classic 'Friend Of The Devil', and a sprawling 17 minute opus called 'Arabia' - "cos there was that Gulf War thing going on at the time..."

Fans of either party (and of banjo and mandolin-based music in particular) will love it: casual moviegoers and record-buyers, possibly less so. Nonetheless, a pleasing enough eulogy for Mr Garcia (who died in 1995).