Alex de Grassi

Alex de Grassi

From Snap Sessions! Podcast by Snap Sessions! Podcast

July 10, 2025 · 1h 23m · Season 1 · Episode 60

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Grammy-nominated guitarist Alex de Grassi and a tribute to baseball legend Willie Mays.

After a long unexpected hiatus, SnapSessions! presents Episode 60, featuring an interview with Grammy-nominated guitarist Alex de Grassi and a SnapSessions! tribute to San Francisco Giants star centerfielder, Willie Mays—"the Say Hey Kid”, just maybe the greatest baseball player of all time.    Alex de Grassi has been a guitarist since his early teens, growing up in a musical family in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and 60s. Dropping the trumpet for the guitar after being exposed to the Beatles, the Stones and Mississippi John Hurt, de Grassi attended UC Berkeley in the early/middle 70s and took a lot of music theory along with his Economic Geography major. This led to classical guitar as well as ongoing labors as a street musician from Berkeley and SF to London, and then finally a connection with Windham Hill records and to his first album,  Slow Circle , which came out in 1979. Since then, Alex has released a total of 16 albums dabbling in a variety of styles from Southern soul to Bolivian folk music to classical lullabies to the Woody the Woodpecker theme. In 1998 he was nominated for a Grammy for his album  Water Garden . In addition, we talk to…

People in this episode

Guest: Alex de Grassi

Topics covered

  • music
  • guitar
  • interview
  • baseball

Keywords

  • Grammy-nominated
  • San Francisco Giants
  • Willie Mays
  • music theory
  • Windham Hill records

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Slow Circle, Water Garden

Books & works: Grammy, Slow Circle, a Grammy for, Water Garden, Your Brain on Music

Places: the San Francisco Bay Area, Berkeley, SF, London

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