RETROGRASS DELUXE EDITION

David Grisman, John Hartford, Mike Seeger

Get ready to go Retro! Traditional music masters, Mike Seeger, John Hartford and David Grisman have joined forces to create Retrograss, (music shifted back in time) a unique musical exploration of popular and rock songs from the 1950s and 1960s taken back to older American folk styles. Imagine Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay" in the style of Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" ala Dock Boggs, Elvis Presley's "Hound Dawg" in the style of Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers or Chuck Berry's "Memphis" with John Hartford's bouncy backwoods fiddle playing and vocals. Even the Beatles’"When I'm Sixty-Four" is transplanted from the Isle of Wight to the hills of Tennessee as an old-timey string band rag!

This Deluxe Edition of Retrograss contains the original 17 tracks plus nine alternate takes and one unreleased track, all in the high-definition (24 bit, 96 khz) format. This unusual project, originally released in 1999 and nominated for a Grammy, is a musical delight — thought-provoking and just plain good old-fashioned fun.

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