Grateful Dawg is a documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 from 2000 which chronicles the friendship and musical relationship of musicians Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia

Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...

 and David Grisman

David Grisman

David Grisman is an American bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music.-Biography:Grisman grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey...

. Director and producer Gillian Grisman uses multiple videos, as well as live recordings, to help show this bond between two friends and musicians. It gives a view of Garcia outside the Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

. The film includes many live performances of Grisman and Garcia.

The DVD has the following chapters:

1: Start

2: "Grateful Dawg" (Live)

3: Early Pickin'

4: "The Sweet Sunny South"

5: Old and in the Way

6: "Pig in a Pen"

7: Sweetwater Reunion

8: "Dawg's Waltz"

9: "Sitting Here in Limbo"

10: Sea Shanties

11: "Off to Sea Once More"

12: Not for Kids Only

13: "Jenny Jenkins"

14: "Arabia" Intro

15: "Arabia"

16: "The Thrill is Gone" Intro

17: "The Thril is Gone"

18: The Living Room

19: "Friend of the Devil"

20: End Credits