Track 57: "Sitting Here in Limbo" by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman

Well, they're putting up resistance/but I know my faith will lead me on

Find your nearest Deadhead and ask if they have any bluegrass albums in their record collection. If the answer is "yes" I bet you a nickel it's the self-titled "Old and in the Way" album. The group that featured the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, John Kahn, Peter Rowan and the late great Vassar Clements was "the" bluegrass album for Deadheads. It's some terrific bluegrass music and also the first of a handful of truly great albums by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman.

If you're a fan of either musician (or not for that matter) and haven't seen the documentary film "Grateful Dawg,"stop reading right now and watch it and then come back...

...so by now you would agree that me saying the documentary perfectly tells the story of the musical relationship between Jerry Garcia and David "Dawg" Grisman would be superfluous, redundant and unnecessary. The "Old and in the Way" album was released in 1975 and it would be over 25 years before Garcia and Grisman would collaborate again, but if you've ever heard any of the duo's music, it sounds like they played together every day over that quarter-century.

They released six-albums together (one being the soundtrack to "Grateful Dawg") and the vast array of music the two cover speaks infinitely of just how musically well-versed Garcia and Grisman were together. The albums in include bluegrass and folk standards, Miles Davis covers, old English sea shanties, and even children's music.

And I just do not get tired of hearing Garcia/Grisman take on Jimmy Cliff's "Sitting Here in Limbo." Garcia just sings the hell out of it, and when his guitar locks in with Grisman's mandolin you feel those notes right in your heart. The rhythm section from Grisman's quintet add just the right touches. Not a bad song for a Monday.