In the early 90’s, longtime friends Jerry Garcia & mandolin virtuoso, David Grisman rekindled their relationship and began playing music together both in the studio and onstage. Weaving their two styles together and finding common ground at every turn, they forged a new music both simple and stunningly elaborate.

I’ll let the tunes do the talking. Here’s the video(!) for B.B. King’s The Thrill is Gone:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKvDtWeyO5c[/youtube]

Pretty sweet, right? There is an excellent film that describes their history and collaboration. It’s called Grateful Dawg. Now, here’s a clip that positively blows my mind every time: Arabia.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNksE5pHEvQ[/youtube]

Want more? You can pick up the cds directly from Grisman’s label, Acoustic Disc or download them (legally) at LiveDownloads.