DAVID GRISMAN

bluegrass-jazz mandolinist

“I remember the first 78 that I bought ‘cause that’s what I started with. It was ‘In the Still of the Night’ by the Five Satins.

“The first album that I ever bought may well have been Buddy Holly & the Crickets. I think I got four albums that day.

“The first bluegrass album that I ever heard was ‘Mountain Music Bluegrass Style’ on Folkways, and the first bluegrass song that I heard was ‘White House Blues’ on that record by Earl Taylor and the Stony Mountain Boys.”