| Retrograss | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | David Grisman, John Hartford, Mike Seeger |
| Cover: | Retrograss.jpg |
| Released: | 1999 |
| Genre: | Bluegrass |
| Length: | 49:24 |
| Label: | Acoustic Disc |
| Producer: | David Grisman, John Hartford, Mike Seeger |
| Chronology: | John Hartford |
| Prev Title: | The Speed of the Old Long Bow |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | Good Old Boys |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
Retrograss is a bluegrass album by David Grisman, John Hartford and Mike Seeger. It was released on the Acoustic Disc record label in 1999.
For the 2000 Grammy Awards, Retrograss received a nomination for Best Traditional Folk Album .
Writing for Allmusic, critic Brian Kelly wrote "All in all, these live, in-studio recordings are mirthful, rocking chair adaptations of American music history. Seeger and Grisman's honeyed tenors conflict well with Hartford's quirky baritone. There are no breakneck solos, and the whole effort achieves more than the sum of its parts..."
Kevin Oliver of Country Standard Time wrote the "more radical reworkings are balanced out by some less revolutionary, but still intriguing versions of bluegrass tunes - Earl Scruggs, "Flint Hill Special," Jimmy Martin's "My Walking Shoes" and the omnipresent classic, "Uncle Pen." With these more traditional tunes included, what could have been a mere novelty record becomes a fascinating study in the mutability of musical genres from another era."[1]