Richard Greene discography explained

Richard Greene is an American violinist. In addition to his 11 solo albums and his recordings with Seatrain, Muleskinner, and the Greene String Quartet, he has been featured as a performer on many albums by other artists.

Solo albums

• 1977: Duets (Rounder)
• 1977: The Greenbriar Years (Old Homestead) with Joe Isaacs and Frank Wakefield
• 1979: Ramblin (Rounder)
• 1982: Blue Rondo (Sierra)
• 1983: Swingrass '83 (Antilles) with Buell Neidlinger, Peter Erskine, Marty Krystall, Peter Ivers, Andy Statman, and Fred Tackett
• 1994: The Greene Fiddler (Sierra)^[1]
• 1995: The Grass Is Greener (Rebel)
• 1996: Wolves a' Howlin (Rebel) with The Grass Is Greener
• 1997: Sales Tax Toddle (Rebel) with The Grass Is Greener - Grammy nominated Bluegrass Record of the Year
• 2001: Hands Across The Pond (self-released) with Beryl Marriott
• 2006: Shufflin (RGP Productions) with the Brothers Barton and Jeff Pekarek^[2]

As a member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band

• 1967: Garden of Joy (Reprise)

As a member of Seatrain

• 1969: Sea Train (A&M)
• 1970: Seatrain (Capitol)^[3]
• 1971: The Marblehead Messenger (Capitol)

As a member of Muleskinner

• 1973: Muleskinner (Warner Bros.) reissued in 1994 as A Potpourri of Bluegrass Jam on the Sierra label^[4]
• 1973: (Micro Werks) released in 1998

As a member of the Greene String Quartet

• 1988: Molly On The Shore (Hannibal
• 1991: The String Machine (Virgin)
• 1995: Bluegreene (Virgin)^[5]

As composer

• 1979: David Grisman - Hot Dawg (Horizon) - track 4, "Dawgology" (co-written with David Grisman)

Also appears on

1967 - 1969

• 1967: Bill Monroe - Blue Grass Time (Decca)
• 1968: Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Young Brigham (Reprise)
• 1968: The Blues Project - Planned Obsolescence (Verve)
• 1969: The Blue Velvet Band - Sweet Moments With The Blue Velvet Band (Warner Bros. / Seven Arts)
• 1969: Brewer & Shipley - Weeds (Kama Sutra)
• 1969: Gary Burton - Throb (Atlantic)
• 1969: Pearls Before Swine - These Things Too (Reprise)

1970 - 1971

• 1970: Big Brother and the Holding Company - Be a Brother (Columbia)
• 1970: John Hall - Action (Columbia)
• 1970: Paul Siebel - Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)
• 1970: Alice Stuart - Full Time Woman (Fantasy)
• 1971: Paul Siebel - Jack-Knife Gypsy (Elektra) - violin on track 4, "Prayer Song"
• 1971: James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon (Warner Bros.) - violin on track 4, "Riding On A Railroad"

1972 - 1974

• 1972: Fat City - Welcome to Fat City (Paramount)
• 1972: Artie Kaplan - Confessions of a Male Chauvinist Pig (Hopi) - violin on track 4, "God Fearin' Man"
• 1972: Al Kooper - Naked Songs (Columbia) - violin on track 4, "Blind Baby"
• 1972: New Riders of the Purple Sage Gypsy Cowboy (Columbia)
• 1972: Rowan Brothers - Rowan Brothers (Columbia)
• 1973: Fraser & deBolt - With Pleasure (Columbia) - violin on track 7, "Two Rainbows"
• 1973: Maria Muldaur - Maria Muldaur (Reprise)
• 1973: Wendy Waldman - Love Has Got Me (Warner Bros.)
• 1974: Gene Clark - No Other (Asylum)
• 1974: Jerry Garcia - Compliments (Round)
• 1974: Kenny Rankin - Silver Morning (Little David)
• 1974: Thomas Jefferson Kaye - First Grade (ABC/Dunhill) - violin on track 7, "Shine The Light"

1975 - 1977

• 1975: Loggins & Messina - So Fine (Columbia)
• 1975: Danny O'Keefe - So Long Harry Truman (Atlantic) - violin on track 8, "Fiddler's Jamboree"
• 1975: Loudon Wainwright III - Unrequited (CBS)
• 1976: David Soul - David Soul (Private Stock)
• 1976: Loggins & Messina - Native Sons (|Columbia)
• 1976: Melanie - Photograph (Atlantic)
• 1977: Country Gazette - What A Way To Make A Living (Transatlantic)
• 1977: Jonathan Edwards - Sailboat (Warner Bros.)
• 1977: Emmylou Harris - Pieces of the Sky (Reprise) - violin on track 1, "Bluebird Wine"
• 1977: Hoyt Axton - Music from Outlaw Blues (Capitol)
• 1977: Tony Rice - Tony Rice (Rounder)
• 1977: David Soul - Playing to an Audience of One (Private Stock)
• 1977: Rod Stewart - Foot Loose & Fancy Free (Warner Bros.) - violin on track 3, " You're In My Heart"

1978 - 1979

• 1978: Rodney Crowell - Ain't Living Long Like This (Warner Bros.)
• 1978: Joe Farrell - Night Dancing (Warner Bros.)
• 1978: Shawn Phillips - Transcendence (RCA) - violin on track 5, "Good Evening Madam"
• 1978: Peter Rowan - Peter Rowan (Flying Fish Records|Flying Fish)
• 1978: Livingston Taylor - Three Way Mirror (Epic) - violin on track 3, "Gonna Have a Good Good Time"
• 1979: Peter McCann - One on One (Columbia) - mandolin on track 3, "Come By Here"
• 1979: Jakob Magnússon - Special Treatment (Warner Bros.)
• 1979: Tony Rice Unit - Acoustics (Kaleidoscope)
• 1979: Peter Rowan - Hiroshima Mon Amour (Better Days/Nippon Columbia)
• 1979: Toni Brown - Toni Brown (Fantasy) - mandolin on track 5, "Dance Me"

1980 - 1984

• 1980: Peter Rowan - Bluegrass Album (Better Days/Nippon Columbia)
• 1980: Tony Rice Unit - Mar West (Rounder)
• 1982: Toni Basil - Word of Mouth (Chrysalis) - violin on track 2, "Rock On"
• 1982: Tony Rice Unit - Backwaters (album) (Rounder)
• 1983: Buellgrass - Big Day at Ojai (K2B2 Records)
• 1984: Tony Elman - Shakin' Down the Acorns, Vol. 2 (Acorn Music)
• 1984: Peter Rowan - Peter Rowan with The Red Hot Pickers (Sugar Hill)
• 1984: Rank and File - Long Gone Dead (Slash Records / Warner Bros.)
• 1985: The Blasters - Hard Line (Warner Bros.) - violin on track 5, "Little Honey"

1985 - 1989

• 1985: Peter Rowan - The First Whippoorwill (Sugar Hill)
• 1986: Phil Alvin - Un "Sung Stories" (London) - violin on track 9, "Collins Cave"
• 1986: Henry Butler - Fivin' Around (MCA)
• 1986: Peter Case - Peter Case (Geffen) - violin on track 6, "Small Town Spree"
• 1986: Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat (I.R.S.) - violin on track 2, "Pick It Up (And Put It In Your Pocket)"
• 1989: Tony Elman - Swinging on a Gate (Acorn Music)
• 1989: Stan Ridgway - Mosquitos (I.R.S.) - electric violin on track 3, "Goin' Southbound"

1990 - 1994

• 1990: Steve Wynn - Kerosene Man (Rhino)
• 1991: Del Shannon - Rock On! (MCA / Silvertone) - violin on track 10, "Let's Dance"
• 1991: Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - The Fire Inside (Capitol) violin on track 11, "Blind Love"
• 1991: Rod Stewart - Vagabond Heart (Warner Bros.) - violin on track 6, "You Are Everything"
• 1992: Jude Cole - Start the Car (Reprise) - violin on track 8, "First Your Money (Then Your Clothes)"
• 1992: Tamiya Lynn - Tamiya Lynn (Liberty)
• 1992: Steve Wynn - Dazzling Display (Rhino)
• 1993: E - Broken Toy Shop (Polydor) - violin on track 7.1, "Mass"
• 1993: Texas - Ricks Road (Vertigo) - violin on track 3, "Listen To Me"
• 1993: Andreas Vollenweider - Eolian Minstrel (Columbia) - violin on track 3, "Reason Enough (All The King's Men)"
• 1994: Peter Rowan and the Rowan Brothers - Tree on a Hill (Sugar Hill)

1995 - present

• 1995: Melissa Manchester - If My Heart Had Wings (Atlantic) violin on track 7, "Higher Ground"
• 1995: Curtis Stigers - Time Was (Arista)
• 1995: Tony Trischka - World Turning (Rounder) - violin on track 5, "Ladies Of Refinement"
• 1995: Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks - Orange Crate Art (Warner Bros.)
• 1996: Herbie Hancock - The New Standard (Verve)
• 1998: Rod Stewart - When We Were the New Boys (Warner Bros.) - violin on track 6, "Hotel Chambermaid"
• 2000: various artists - The Original Dueling Banjos (CMH)
• 2001: Mandy Moore - Mandy Moore (Epic) violin on track 6, "Cry"
• 2002: Linda Thompson - Fashionably Late (Rounder) - violin on track 2, "Miss Murray"
• 2006: Maria Muldaur - Sings Love Songs of Bob Dylan - Heart of Mine (Telarc)
• 2006: various artists - (ANTI-)

Notes and References

1. News: Duckman. David. Richard Greene The Greene Fiddler (Sierra). June 5, 2017. Chicago Tribune. September 15, 1994.
2. News: Parks. Richard. Review: Richard Greene's Shufflin'. June 19, 2017. Fanzine. July 21, 2005.
3. News: Reines. Mary. Seatrain recorded with George Martin in Marblehead. June 19, 2017. Wicked Local - Salem. March 23, 2016.
4. Web site: Muleskinner: A Potpourri of Bluegrass Jam. Green Man Review. June 5, 2017. David Kidney.
5. News: Stewart. Zan. Greene String Quartet: More Than Punch and Pizazz. June 19, 2017. Los Angeles Times. June 12, 1995.