Singer/songwriter Sara Wasserman traces her lineage to bassist Rob Wasserman and to Clare Wasserman, who managed performing artists. Her childhood unfolded in Northern California amid the musicians her parents regularly hosted, prompting her to begin vocal lessons at the age of ten. She first appeared onstage on August 2, 1997, when she sat in with RatDog—the ensemble her father anchored alongside Bob Weir—at the Furthur Festival held at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, delivering the song “Solid Ground,” co-written by Rob Wasserman and Jim Capaldi. At eighteen she relocated to New York intent on an acting career, yet ultimately circled back to music. Early in the 2000s she started shaping her debut album, Solid Ground, assembling it gradually across multiple years and with numerous collaborators, among them Christian McBride, DJ Logic, Aaron Neville, Vernon Reid of Living Colour, Stephen Perkins of Jane’s Addiction, Lou Reed, and her father, mirroring the method her father had long employed for his own recordings. A self-released single, “You Got Me,” surfaced in 2007. She later signed with That Other Label, an imprint of Pacific Coast Jazz, which released Solid Ground on June 16, 2009.
