Out-of-print Dawg CDs

[Martin K]

I'm new to the message board and fairly new to the mandolin (about 2 years). I'm slowly working my way through David Grisman's instructional CDs from Homespun, and I'm in the grip of Dawgfever.

The more I listen, the more I think the man's a genius (as are so many of the talented musicians who've played with him, such as Mike Marshall, Mark O'Connor, Tony Rice - the list goes on and on).

The original David Grisman Quintet album really opened my eyes (or should that be ears?), followed by Hot Dawg, and the live album with Stephane Grappelli.

I really wanted to get hold of the other albums he made around that time (Quintet 80, Mondo Mando, and Dawg Jazz/Grass), but they all seem to be out of print. You might be able to find them on vinyl on eBay, but I don't have a record player.

I came across this thread from a year or two ago, and it looks as though some of these tracks became temporarily available at the Acoustic Disc website (which is awesome).

http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26172&highlight=mondo+mando

Does anyone know if there has been any update on the availability of these out-of-print CDs, or whether Acoustic Disc might make some of the tracks available again?

[jefflester]

Well the free download at Acoustic Disc changes every day and some of those tracks show up. There is no organized (and there wasn't before) posting of the tracks from Grisman's back catalog, just check everyday. Although most of them these days are from the ACD catalog.

There has not been any further news about the CDs coming back in print. Of those 3, I believe only Mando Mando was ever *in* CD print.

One (expensive) option is to buy the LP from a place that will also copy it to CDR for you. But for those prices you might as well buy a turntable and do it yourself.

Mondo Mando from cdBBQ (http://www.musicstack.com/item/16778720/dave+grisman/mondo+mando)
Dawg Grass/Dawg Jazz from Going Digital (http://www.musicstack.com/item/1690391/grisman,david/dawg+grass+_fsz_+dawg)

And there a couple of (exensive) Mondo Mando CDs available from Music Stack vendors at the moment: Mondo Mando CDs (http://www.musicstack.com/listings.cgi?find=Mondo+Mando&search_type=title&media=CDs)