If it's true the Grateful Dead epitomize the counter culture of the Sixties, it's also true the iconic group embraced the following decade on its very own terms, at least at the outset of the period.

"I never wanted to have a record company," says David Grisman, the Northern California mandolinist extraordinaire and pioneer of the instrumental bluegrass/folk/jazz blend known as new acoustic music.

Describing David Grisman means figuring out how to explain how he combines bluegrass, klezmer, jam bands, and jazz. But that’s what the virtuoso mandolin player has done in a 50-year career during ...

Mike Marshall (left) and David Grisman at UC Santa Cruz Brazil’s Danilo Brito (left) with David Grisman at the 2009 UCSC Mandolin Symposium ...

What: David Grisman Bluegrass Experience; Jeff Austin Band and Caribou Mountain Collective will also perform. When: Saturday, Sept. 12. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m. Where: State Bridge ...

He recently moved his recording studio from Mill Valley to Petaluma, but David Grisman can do without other kinds of walls in his music. "I think categories are way too general," he maintains, "and ...

A mandolin player who recorded with The Grateful Dead is suing YouTube for posting his videos illegally. David Grisman, nicknamed "Dawg" by former Dead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia, filed the ...

David Grisman calls his music “Dawg” music which happens to be his nickname of 35 years — back then he looked like a shaggy dog apparently — and just as good a label as any. Grisman, 63, the mandolin ...

It’s always a mystery why a person responds to one kind of music more than another. Often it’s a result of the time and place that someone went through during their teens and 20s, but some people just ...

David Grisman calls it a “confluence of events” that dragged him into the recording business in 1989. Grisman, who had led the accomplished, influential David Grisman Quintet since the mid-’70s, was ...

“There was nothing like that, a mandolin player … leading a band just didn’t exist. So, it turned out to be my niche.”— David Grisman For more than 40 years, mandolinist and composer David Grisman has ...