Chattanooga Times Free Press entertainment reporter Casey Phillips spoke with flat picking guitar guru David Grier about finally releasing an album he recorded in 1998 and why he’s excited about performing with his new bluegrass-centered All Stars group.
Casey Phillips: You’re the studio. What are you guys working on now?
David Grier: guys is just me and my buddy Brent Truitt. He produced my last record, and he has recorded a bunch of my records. He and I are good buddies. We were good buddies before we went in the studio.
He and I are working on this record I recorded in 1998 that I never put out and I’m getting ready to put out. (Laughs.) That’s what I’ve been up to. It’s an old-time record, which is a big departure from what I did on my last recording. (That record) was more produced. I played electric guitars and there’s drums and pedal steel, and it was all my tunes. This one is mostly old time tunes. I arranged them and changed them around, but it’s really the polar opposite.
CP: Why did you decide to revisit that project after so long?