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Hold on Were Strummin
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  1. Audio CD: Release Date 2003-09-23
  2. Publisher: Acoustic Disc
  3. Artist: Sam Bush, David Grisman
  4. Sales Rank in Music: #61765

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The long-awaited collaboration of acoustic music innovators David Grisman and Sam Bush is upon us with "Hold On, W'e're Strummin".

Close friends since 1965 when Grisman put his Lloyd Loar mandolin in a teenaged Bush's hands, this most dynamic string duo has created an acoustic tour de force. This historic release features nine new Sam & David originals, showcasing the psychic interplay and stylistic fluidity that has permeated their stellar careers. Guest artists appearing include Doc Watson accompanist, Jack Lawrence, Enrique Coria and Jim Kerwin of the David Grisman Quintet and the legendary Hal Blaine on drums.

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You won’t have to be a mandolin aficionado to get delightfully caught up in the complex rhythms, exotic melodies, and entrancing syncopations of this mandolin super-duo’s first album-length collaboration. Yet only students of the instrument are apt to appreciate the extraordinary level of musicianship contained in this eminently listenable, all-instrumental collection. David Grisman is a former member of Earth Opera, founder of The David Grisman Quintet, and the late Jerry Garcia’s occasional sidekick in the erstwhile bluegrass band, Old & In The Way. Sam Bush is a founding member of The New Grass Revival and has played mandolin on the records of everyone from Allison Krauss to Garth Brooks. Each, in his own right, is a master of the contemporary newgrass/new age mandolin. And on tracks like the droning, bluesy "Swamp Thing," the soaring "Intimo," and the doleful "Weeping Mandolin Waltz," they inspire each other to reach even deeper into their grab bags of hot mandolin licks. --Bob Allen
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Average Customer Review
4.8 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews)

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Mandnificent vehicle that's full of spirit, energy & groove, October 4, 2003
J. Ross "a-music_fan" (Roseburg, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hold on We're Strummin (Audio CD)
Playing Time - 70:22 -- David Grisman's music has been described as bluegrass-jazz-Gypsy-rock-Middle Eastern-Hebraic- folk-classical-Grisman." Sam Bush also has very eclectic tastes, and Grisman once said about Bush, "He's got everything: incredibly powerful rhythm, great solos, and he can play in any style. Everything he plays is just there - not just headed there, but fully realized." Then, there was the time that Sam called David one of his "musical heroes." Sure seems kind of surprising that these two outstanding all-purpose pickers and friends since 1965 haven't collaborated on a recording project sooner.

Of the sixteen tracks comprising over 70 musical minutes, there are eleven new joint Grisman/Bush originals that range from slide mandolin ("Swamp Thing") to a John Hartford tribute ("Hartford's Real"), straight-ahead Dawg ("Intimo" and "Sea Breeze") to graceful gospel ("The Old South"). Less...Read more


11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb musicianship, February 26, 2004
J. Ross "a-music_fan" (Roseburg, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hold on We're Strummin (Audio CD)
From my perceptive friend, Bill Jolliff:
So what's left to say about HOLD ON, WE'RE STRUMMIN'? When two of the mandolin virtuosi of generation get together to do a mandolin CD-featuring mandolins, mandolas, mandocellos, and a plethora of other vintage woodwork-where do we begin? The musicianship is superb, but we knew it would be. The production-arrangements, selections of instruments, the mix, the feel--is understated and precisely appropriate to the project, but we knew it would be. Even the physical package itself is colorful and entertaining and attractive, but then, we knew that, too-and Grisman does run Acoustic Disc.About the only question is the material. When players at the level of Grisman and Bush decide to make art together, the material chosen, it seems to me, becomes one of the few real variables. I've picked up more than one CD with equal promise, listened to it once or twice, then put it on the shelf-just because the material doesn't cut it for me. I'm...Read more


2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars SUPERLATIVE - WOW - SUBLIME - GREAT GOOGLIE MOOGLIE!, May 7, 2004
applewood (everywhere and nowhere) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hold on We're Strummin (Audio CD)
Sometimes (rarely) a CD comes right out of the package and jumps right out of the player and delivers on every track, a work of magic, a play of the divine... and this is one of those, a real treat to the players (obviously) and listeners. These guys are just so good and their playing just so infectiously fun. I like them both alot on their own but this is WAY better. It doesn't get any better. Need I say more?

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