Podcast 255: Mike Grigoni

A bonus episode this week! The Fretboard Journal's Ryan Richter
talks to dobro, lap steel and pedal steel composer and
instrumentalist Mike Grigoni. 


Ryan says, "In 2001, I had the good fortune of meeting Mike
Grigoni on a Bainbridge Island beach. 'You gotta know this
guy...' was the party line that day, and it was right on the
money. Before departing Seattle, Mike and I collaborated on
music, and though it never bore much tangible fruit, it was
wildly informative for me. Mike's ample skill as a leader,
accompanist, and composer was an invigorating force that's as
much of an inspiration now as it was then. (When working on my
own music, I often employ the 'what would Mike do here"
postulate.') 


Mike's musical journey has taken him from traditional Bluegrass
to Ambient music, a swing that could be a mirror reaction to his
shift in academic focus from Ethnomusicology to Ethnography, a
subject on which he's currently writing his dissertation in
Durham, North Carolina. 



 


Grigoni's current release Mount Carmel is out now on Taylor
Dupree's 12K label.