Tony Rice

The opening mandolin and string arrangement of “Heart and Song,” the first track on Taarka’s Making Tracks Home, is as graceful and rich as anything played on the famed David Grisman and Tony Rice collaboration Tone Poems, and it serves to set the stage of this gorgeous, warm, hopeful and heart-wrenching album.

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This first volume of the collected original compositions of David “Dawg” Grisman is comprised of works written between 1963 and 1975, compiled chronologically in the order in which they were written. These performances were selected by the composer and include eight previously unissued tracks featuring David with Vassar Clements, Jerry Garcia, Bill Keith, Tony Rice, Frank Vignola, Clarence White and many others. In a March 1996 concert review, a Chicago Tribune critic described Grisman's "dawg" music as being among "the most important innovations in American music. By blending the exuberant spirit of bluegrass, the inspired melodies of classic American pop, the improvisatory techniques of instrumental jazz and even the plaintive gestures of turn of the century Klezmer, David Grisman has created a distinctive form of American music and lifted it to the level of high art."

This second volume of the collected original compositions of David “Dawg” Grisman is comprised of works written between 1963 and 1975, compiled chronologically in the order in which they were written. These performances were selected by the composer and include 10 previously unissued tracks featuring David with Hal Blaine, Ray Brown, Jethro Burns, Tommy Emmanuel, Stephane Grappelli, Tony Rice, John Sebastian, Martin Taylor, Frank Vignola, Denny Zeitlin, and many others.

This third volume of the collected original compositions of David “Dawg” Grisman is comprised of works written between 1982 and 1991, compiled chronologically in the order in which they were written. These performances were selected by the composer and include 10 previously unissued tracks featuring David with Svend Asmussen, Hal Blaine, Jerry Douglas, Stephane Grappelli, Tony Rice, Martin Taylor, Frank Vignola, Denny Zeitlin, and many others. All the tracks have been re-mastered in the high-definition (24 bit, 96 khz) format, affording listeners the unique opportunity to enjoy this music in a sonically superior format.

This fourth volume of the collected original compositions of David “Dawg” Grisman is comprised of works written between 1991 and 1999, compiled chronologically in the order in which they were written. These performances were selected by the composer and include 10 previously unissued tracks featuring David with Jerry Garcia, John Hartford, Edgar Meyer, Tony Rice and many others. All the tracks have been re-mastered in the high-definition (24 bit, 96 khz) format, affording listeners the unique opportunity to enjoy this music in a sonically superior format.