D. Grisman & T. Rice: 

Peter

I found this cover band version of ABBA's 'Dancing Queen':

https://youtu.be/pru_X0BXqbg?list=RDpru_X0BXqbg

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on January 05, 2026, 08:07:14 PM
D. Grisman & T. Rice: 

Peter

Saved to my 'Watch Later' folder. I have a vague recollection of these shows. It seems to me this was around the time Grisman produced the first of those Tone Poems recordings.


I'm running a little bit late on Bare Trees this year. I'm usually done getting the leaves up by Thanksgiving but some stuff happened... doesn't matter. It's a rare warm spell for a January here in Southwest Virginia, so I'm raking and dragging furiously.

Kind of reminded me of Alex Blake in duet with Randy Weston I posted a while back ...
https://club.alembicguitars.net/index.php?topic=16121.msg245735#msg245735


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Worth posting again.

From one of my favorite under-the-radar albums I found in a cut-outs bin about 50 years ago.  The incomparable Vassar Clements and friends Hillbilly Jazz.

Bill, tgo

Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, 2/17/79; Keith & Donna's last show:  https://archive.org/details/gd1979-02-17.sbd.patched.tobin.105606.flac16/gd1979-02-17d1t01.flac


Peter

Pretty good interview with Keb' Mo' on Clint Black's Talking in Circles program.
 


Coincidentally I met him during my tenure in Nashville. This would've been around 1996, and he was playing for a thing they used to have down on the river at 1st and Broadway (across from where the football stadium is now) called the Festival of Lights. No band, just a guitar, a couple mics and a Barcus-Berry Porchboard. I bought a copy of that record, and that was my gateway to Rob't Johnson.

*The recent episode with Vince Gill is pretty good too.

Featuring one and only, Mr. Jimmy Johnson on bass!!!



Man, his bass playing and the tone!!   Gives me the chill 

I still love all the music GRP label was putting out back in the 80s and early 90s.   

Takeo Sonoi

Quote from: tkotmk42 on January 10, 2026, 06:50:17 AM
Featuring one and only, Mr. Jimmy Johnson on bass!!!

Man, his bass playing and the tone!!   Gives me the chill 

The bass does sound nice on that track, and the fills and solo are pretty cool as well.

Quote from: tkotmk42 on January 10, 2026, 06:50:17 AM
Featuring one and only, Mr. Jimmy Johnson on bass!!!

Man, his bass playing and the tone!!   Gives me the chill 

I still love all the music GRP label was putting out back in the 80s and early 90s.   

Takeo Sonoi

Seems like I remember Jimmy telling us a story about another one that played with Reba McEntire too... not much question about which Jimmy this is though! 😊 I need to dig through my 80's country catalog and see if that guy ever recorded with her or just worked the road. I thought she mostly used the Nashville A-listers of the day for tracking.

Cheers guys.  That was oh so very long ago.  Russ Freeman and his team were nice and appreciative folks to work with.  But when I hear that track now it sounds almost like an LP playing at 45rpm (for those who get the reference).  That's a mighty bright tempo for that song!  Ha!  We were all youngsters.

Carry on,
Jimmy J

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on January 10, 2026, 08:49:42 AM
Seems like I remember Jimmy telling us a story about another one that played with Reba McEntire too... not much question about which Jimmy this is though! 😊 I need to dig through my 80's country catalog and see if that guy ever recorded with her or just worked the road. I thought she mostly used the Nashville A-listers of the day for tracking.

It has become a hobby of mine to find notable Jimmy Johnsons (to date ours, Reba's, Chicago blues guitarist, Muscle Shoals session guitarist, racy car driver, football coach, & Arlo & Janis cartoonist - though I suspect I'm forgetting one or two).
When Jimmy mentioned the guy with Ms. McIntyre, I searched to see if he did anything else, and could find no mention of him - and the stupid AI kicked in to tell me that Jimmy Johnson had never played for Reba, but has spent many years with JT.  So I'm assuming touring only.


Peter

Sorry to sidetrack the thread.  A few years back if you did a search for "Jimmy Johnson bass" you would be pointed to an award winning bass fisherman.  I've enjoyed the relative anonymity of my common name.  I'm from Minnesota, the land of Johnsons, Olsons, Swansons, etc.  My dad was Clifford and at one time there were 40 of them in the Minneapolis phone book. 

OK, now where were we?
Jimmy J

Sorry, last word.  It might have been this guy:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1459836-Jim-Johnson-8?srsltid=AfmBOoqS1rsKmCYT2vKDh_9lhauXDZ_rgCo_ylatwON5Q3bEOfDsaU-Z

There ya' have it... you guys gotta' get together sometime and prank some folks. 😄


Two degrees of separation; Leland Sklar played on a buncha' Reba's records. But then it's hard to find anybody who's anybody Lee didn't play on at least some of their records.