David Grissom
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David Grissom is an American session guitarist.
Grissom has recorded sessions and toured with a number of well known American recording artists including Joe Ely, John Mellencamp, and Buddy Guy.
He's perhaps best known for his early work with Joe Ely for whom he was the main guitarist between 1985-1991. He went on to join the John Mellencamp band (while still recording with Ely). Following Mellencamp, he went on to form the critically acclaimed "STORYVILLE" with Malford Milligan (vocals), David Holt (Guitar) and "Double-Trouble" - Tommy Shannon (Bass) and Chris Layton (Drums). He has since toured with the Allman Brothers and the Dixie Chicks before releasing his first solo album 'Loud Music' in 2007.
Grissom recently recorded with Owen Temple on his latest recording "Two Thousand Miles", produced by Lloyd Maines and currently resides in Austin, Texas.
Grissom has played PRS (Paul Reed Smith) guitars for most of his professional career. He played a modified PRS McCarty Trem for over a decade. Then, in 2007, his collaboration with Paul Reed Smith resulted in the DGT (David Grissom Trem) signature model from PRS. The guitar has met with widespread popularity within the PRS community. Its innovations (for a PRS guitar) include special pickups chosen by Grissom, Dunlop 6100 fretwire, a nitrocellulose finish, and two volume knobs to allow the blending of both humbucking pickups (Grissom noted that this feature was inspired by the sounds Jimmy Page created on the early Led Zeppelin albums).
