Song of the Day 4/24: Old & In the Way, “Old and In the Way”

This one’s for Dianne Feinstein who, almost everyone agrees, is both old and in the way. Feinstein was on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors when those hippies Jerry Garcia and David Grisman put together their bluegrass supergroup in 1973 and named the project after this Grisman tune. They were not yet 30. Grisman is still alive, but unlike Feinstein, he’s not in the way.

Old & In the Way existed for most of 1973 and played about 50 shows, but never recorded anything in a studio. Their LP, released in 1975, was compiled from their Oct. 8, 1973 San Francisco concert, recorded by Owsley Stanley. It was the best-selling bluegrass album of all time before it was surpassed by the soundtrack to “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”