Old & In The Way - Live at California State College 1973 - Part 1
Old & In The Way - Live at California State College 1973 - Part 2
1 Going To The Races
2 Catfish John
3 Eating Out Of Your Hand
4 Lonesome Fiddle Blues
5 Land Of The Navajo
6 Old & In The Way Breakdown
7 Panama Red
8 Pig In A Pen
9 Fanny Hill
10 Hobo Song
11 Wild Horses
12 White Dove
13 Lonesome L.A. Cowboy
14 Drifting Too Far From The Shore
15 Wicked Path Of Sin
16 Knockin' On Your Door
17 Uncle Pen
18 High Lonesome Sound
19 Just A Tramp On The Street
20 All Around The Watertank
21 Midnight Moonlight
22 Orange Blossom Special
2 Catfish John
3 Eating Out Of Your Hand
4 Lonesome Fiddle Blues
5 Land Of The Navajo
6 Old & In The Way Breakdown
7 Panama Red
8 Pig In A Pen
9 Fanny Hill
10 Hobo Song
11 Wild Horses
12 White Dove
13 Lonesome L.A. Cowboy
14 Drifting Too Far From The Shore
15 Wicked Path Of Sin
16 Knockin' On Your Door
17 Uncle Pen
18 High Lonesome Sound
19 Just A Tramp On The Street
20 All Around The Watertank
21 Midnight Moonlight
22 Orange Blossom Special
Old and In the Way were (ironically) mostly not old – and certainly not at all in anyone’s way! – when they gathered in 1973 to play about 50 live shows. Fiddler Vassar Clements, born in 1928 and having joined Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys at 21, was still under 50. The other members of OAITW were only about 30 at the time, give or take a few years.
After spending a year with OAITW playing the banjo (the first stringed instrument he learned to play as a teen), Jerry Garcia soon returned his focus to playing guitar in the Grateful Dead and the Jerry Garcia Band. John Kahn, who had been playing bass for Garcia’s side projects since 1970, remained by Jerry’s side on stage and in the studio until they both passed away in the mid-1990s. Clements, who appeared on over 200 albums in his life, was never lacking in invitations to record or play live with other musicians. He died in 2005.
Guitar player and lead OAITW vocalist/yodeler Peter Rowan (who had also played for Bill Monroe) moved forward with a storied solo career. The same can be said for 'dawg' music pioneer and mandolin virtuoso David Grisman. Both of them continue to carry the bluegrass torch and each has also led numerous explorations into other avenues of folk, Americana, and jazz.
It’s now fair to categorize their classic album, recorded at San Francisco’s Boarding House, as 'old'. (Fun fact: the album was recorded by the “Wall of Sound” engineer and LSD impresario Stanley Owsley.)
But they’re still not in the way. Most definitely not in the “just ignore the old guys in the corner” way. To the contrary, the original album was for decades the best-selling bluegrass record of all time – finally unseated by the “O Brother, Where Art Thou” soundtrack after more than 25 years. (Because, of course, all records are made to be broken!) It’s no exaggeration to observe that thousands and thousands of music fans, especially Deadheads, got turned on to bluegrass by OAITW. From: https://www.gratefulweb.com/articles/album-review-old-way-live-sonoma-state-11473
After spending a year with OAITW playing the banjo (the first stringed instrument he learned to play as a teen), Jerry Garcia soon returned his focus to playing guitar in the Grateful Dead and the Jerry Garcia Band. John Kahn, who had been playing bass for Garcia’s side projects since 1970, remained by Jerry’s side on stage and in the studio until they both passed away in the mid-1990s. Clements, who appeared on over 200 albums in his life, was never lacking in invitations to record or play live with other musicians. He died in 2005.
Guitar player and lead OAITW vocalist/yodeler Peter Rowan (who had also played for Bill Monroe) moved forward with a storied solo career. The same can be said for 'dawg' music pioneer and mandolin virtuoso David Grisman. Both of them continue to carry the bluegrass torch and each has also led numerous explorations into other avenues of folk, Americana, and jazz.
It’s now fair to categorize their classic album, recorded at San Francisco’s Boarding House, as 'old'. (Fun fact: the album was recorded by the “Wall of Sound” engineer and LSD impresario Stanley Owsley.)
But they’re still not in the way. Most definitely not in the “just ignore the old guys in the corner” way. To the contrary, the original album was for decades the best-selling bluegrass record of all time – finally unseated by the “O Brother, Where Art Thou” soundtrack after more than 25 years. (Because, of course, all records are made to be broken!) It’s no exaggeration to observe that thousands and thousands of music fans, especially Deadheads, got turned on to bluegrass by OAITW. From: https://www.gratefulweb.com/articles/album-review-old-way-live-sonoma-state-11473
