Sandy Rothman Explained

Sandy Rothman
Birth Date:	30 January 1946
Birth Place:	Miami, Florida
Origin:	San Francisco, California
Genre:	Bluegrass
Occupation:	Musician, record producer
Instrument:	Mandolin, dobro, banjo
Years Active:	Early 1960s – present

Sandy Rothman (born January 30, 1946, Miami, Florida^[1]) is an American, San Francisco Bay Area bluegrass multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He plays mandolin, dobro and banjo, and he also sings. Rothman was a friend and colleague of Grateful Dead bandleader Jerry Garcia, and a member of the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band.^[2] He played bluegrass with Garcia and David Nelson as the Black Mountain Boys in 1964,^[3] and has played in 1964 with Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys,^{[4] [5]} Earl Taylor, Red Allen, Jimmie Skinner, Larry Sparks, the Kentucky Colonels, Country Joe McDonald,^[6] Kathy Kallick^[7] and Clarence White, among other musicians. He has been described as "one of the chief biscuits when and where bluegrass music is discussed, scribed, or performed in northern California."^[8]

Discography

• Almost Acoustic – Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band – Arista Records (1988) (producer and performer)
• The Old Road to Home – Sandy Rothman – Tonebar Records (1993) (producer and performer)^[9]
• Bluegrass Guitar Duets – Sandy Rothman and Steve Pottier – Sierra Records (1994)^[10]
• – Jerry Garcia Band and Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band – Jerry Made Records (2004)
• – Jerry Garcia Band and Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band – Jerry Made Records (2004)
• Songs of the Grateful Dead: A Tribute to Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter – Jesse McReynolds and Friends, feat. David Nelson and Stu Allen – Woodstock Records (2010) (producer and performer)^{[11] [12] [13]}
• Ragged but Right – Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band – Jerry Made Records (2010) (recorded in 1987) (producer and performer)
• – Jerry Garcia Band and Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band – ATO Records (2015)
• Electric on the Eel – included on the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band bonus disc Acoustic on the Eel (2019)^{[14] [15] [16]}

External links

• Rothman at Woodstock Records website
• "Jerry's Banjo Years", article on Jerry Garcia by Rothman

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20120406111336/http://bluegrasstoday.com/20897/i%E2%80%99m-going-back-to-old-kentucky-122/ Bluegrass Today, 30 January 2011
2. Web site: Chadbourne . Eugene . Sandy Rothman . AllMusic . 2011-10-24.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=w3y3PbFPNe4C&dq=%22sandy+rothman%22&pg=PA61 Garcia: An American Life, Blair Jackson (p. 61)
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=GAbnm5EdCu0C&dq=%22sandy+rothman%22&pg=PA81 Bean Blossom: The Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Festivals, Thomas A. Adler (p. 81)
5. http://doodah.net/bgb/chrono.html Bluegrass Boys, Chronological index
6. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SBkhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=m0cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5077,5119813&dq=sandy-rothman&hl=en "Country Joe' Mcdonald Tries Singing A New Tune", Daily News (Bowling Green, Kentucky) June 21, 1991
7. Web site: Sandy Rothman . AllMusic . 2011-10-24.
8. Web site: Sandy Rothman's Home Page . Well.com . 2011-10-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110905215118/http://www.well.com/user/smarcus/sr/Sandy.html . 2011-09-05 .
9. http://www.ibiblio.org/hillwilliam/BGdiscography/?v=fullrecord&albumid=5697 The Old Road to Home
10. Lankford, Ronnie D., Jr. Bluegrass Guitar Duets at AllMusic. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
11. https://web.archive.org/web/20160306050350/http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-52470520101027 "Bluegrass Legend Puts Out Album of Grateful Dead Music"
12. http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/songs-of-the-grateful-dead-feat-jesse-mcreynolds-and-more/Event?oid=2593461 "Songs of the Grateful Dead Featuring Jesse McReynolds & More"
13. http://www.jimandjesse.com/resources/TributetoJerryGarciaandRobertHunter.php Songs of the Grateful Dead
14. Web site: Scott . Bernstein . February 1, 2019 . Jerry Garcia Band Electric on the Eel Box Set Due in March . JamBase . September 12, 2019.
15. Web site: Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band – Acoustic on the Eel . Discogs . 19 March 2019 . September 12, 2019.
16. Web site: Acoustic on the Eel . Grateful Dead Family Discography . September 12, 2019.