Grateful Dead Family Discography: Bluegrass Pines

Bluegrass Pines

Composer: Bill Payne / Robert Hunter

One of a number of songs written by Bill Payne using lyrics by Robert Hunter. Payne provides some background information in the liner notes of the Strike Up The Band album:

"When Robert Hunter and I began writing, he usually sent me the lyrics first. After several times of doing it this way, he suggested I send him the music first. I had a short instrumental entitled Banjo Wanderings. I was amazed at how this small clip inspired the expansive and wonderful lyrics he called Bluegrass Pines. The music I gave him essentially covered only the chorus. Everything else was the result of his imagination and my mining of the melody and chords from the scenery he painted."

The Leftover Salmon recordings of the song date from the period when Bill Payne was a member of the group.

Recordings

no info Tracing Footsteps (DVD), Bill Payne, 2012
no info High Country, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 30 Years Under The Big Top, Leftover Salmon, 2020
Strike Up The Band, Little Feat, 2025

Leftover Salmon concert recordings

no info 3/27/14, Terrapin Crossroads, San Rafael, CA, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 4/19/14, Aggie Theatre, Fort Collins, CO, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 5/30/14, Blackstock Music Festival, Blackstock, SC, Leftover Salmon, 2014
5/31/14, Wilmington, NC, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 6/1/14, Pisgah Brewing Company, Black Mountain, NC, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 6/3/14, Harvester Performance Center, Rocky Mount, VA, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 6/5/14, The Hamilton, Washington, DC, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 6/7/14, Ziggy's, Winston-Salem, NC, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 6/14/14, Snowmass Mammoth Festival, Snowmass Village, CO, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 6/27/14, Britt Pavilion, Jacksonville, OR, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 10/4/14, The Independent, San Francisco, CA, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 11/29/14, Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 12/13/14, Strings and Sol, Puerto Morelos, MX, Leftover Salmon, 2014
no info 1/2/15, The Sitzmark, Girdwood, AK, Leftover Salmon, 2015
no info 1/9/15, Charley's, Paia, HI, Leftover Salmon, 2015
no info 2/6/15, Knotty Pine Supper Club, Victor, ID, Leftover Salmon, 2015
no info 8/8/15, Bear's Picnic, Roaring Branch, PA, Leftover Salmon, 2015