E.M.D.

Grisman wrote it. It opens the album at 2:37 and is also on DGQ-20 (1996). The title stands for Eat My Dust, according to Bluegrass Today, which says it got its name as the movie theme for a film of that title, and Peghead Nation, which says he wrote it for the film; none of these sources quotes Grisman, and whether it was used in the film is unverified. It is a one-part melody, repetitive and syncopated, with chords in E minor, written as a mandolin tune and a jam favorite, as Joe K. Walsh's Peghead Nation lesson shows. Brown wrote of pulsating rhythms exploding through his speakers. A blog says Tony Rice's guitar break changed one writer's idea of the guitar.

The New Acoustic Collective made it the lead single of their EP Buckwild in December 2020, and a triple-mandolin version with Darol Anger on octave mandolin was played at Great Lakes Music Camp in 2019. We found no charts, samples or setlist count, and presume our upload is the 1977 studio version.