WEEKLY SPECIAL

Acoustic Disc is now offering a special 20% discount on one of our digital download releases each week.

This week’s bargain-priced special is Live at the Boarding House by Old & in the Way. Nearly 50 years ago on a monday night, a bluegrass band took the stage of The Boarding House on Bush Street in San Francisco. The band included two of Bill Monroe’s former Blue Grass Boys, guitarist Peter Rowan and fiddle virtuoso Vassar Clements, mandolinist David Grisman and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead picking banjo, along with his bass-playing sidekick, John Kahn. Fortunately, Owsley Stanley III (aka “Bear”) was there with his stereo Nagra tape recorder and a slew of high quality microphones to capture this music “live.”

A week later the same group played there again and Bear recorded what would become one of the most influential albums in Bluegrass history – Old & in the Way. With the release of Live at the Boarding House – The Complete Shows, both shows can be heard in their entirety and available in the High Definition (24 bit, 96 khz) format as well. This four-volume collection includes 55 tracks, 14 of which have never been released in any format.