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Keillor's singing is obviously not professional and boring to some. But maybe his singing and certainly his humor (his writing) made PHC what it's been. He's why people listened to the show. ...

Hope this new info. Those interested in blues and the mandolin might be interested in these two items.

1. Google PRX Blues Unlimited #165: Wind City Mandolin for a two-hour show on the mandolin in...

StuartE,

Thanks for your post. The mandolin site has a great interview with Johnny Young. Anyone interested in his music should listen to (besides Chicago/The Blues/Today) this cd: *Mandolin...

Happy birthday a day late to Norman Blake. I hope he keeps writing for and performing on the mandolin.

Memory, don't fail me now. I think it's Kenny Baker's "Roxanna's Waltz." Baker started it in C and then shifted to A, at least that's what I remember.

Jim,

I have Mike's A2-Z 25 and feel just as you do. Mike's work is wonderful--thanks for your post.

Nick, my experience playing with other instruments is very close to yours. My A2-Z #25 makes itself heard among with four or five instruments and while keeping an oval sound. Mike's work is...

But will Gibson let Bush himself know if the strings are discontinued?:))

Recently I've become the caretaker of one of Mike Black's newest mandolins, and I wanted to post this to describe it and say how happy I am with it. It's stunning. I've asked Mike to post his...

$4,666.?! A clever price! I've also heard Martin allows the total on credit--payment is due later.

[QUOTE=dang;1307643]I have an MT2O that I custom ordered from Collings. I am also a Weber owner, I have a Weber Bighorn and used to have a hyalite oval. The hyalite wasn't bad, but it was just ok. ...

Hope you're also learning (or have already learned) OJC in A, which many fiddlers want to play in tune in. Besides, it'll be handy to play the tune in two keys.

Thanks for bringing in Tommy Jackson to this discussion. Two things interesting differences between his recording and the versions I hear in jams: he plays the second part of the tune only once;...

I hink you've got it exactly. The number of mandolins in any store (except for obvious exceptions) is going to be very limited. I've been to Guitar Works in Evanston four times and found from five...

Jerry "Ish" Penfound, the saxophone player for Levon and the Hawks

If you really can't take your mandolin with you (you don't have a really cheap second mando or your flying, etc.), you no problem. Lots of great examples are here already. Besides, would you really...

It doesn't take "Zen-like mastery" to understand or respond to the question asked. The "very essence of things" wasn't anything we'd been asked to consider, discuss, or respond to. It's great that...

Allen has give you a great process. If no one plays mandolin in your area, try having a guitar player tune the mandolin

Recommended (and inexpensive) if you haven't seen them: Crumb's three sets of playing cards of old-time, blues, and jazz musicians.

Also recommended are *Traditional Fiddle Music of Kentucky* Vols. 1 and 2 (Rounder CDs 037 and 0377). 39 and 38 performances, many by the fiddlers in Titon's book. Obviously no notations or tabs...

Eric, you might try Jeff Titon's *Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes*, which was published by the University of Kentucky in 2001. This contains notations of 170 tunes. Some are well-known ("Turkey in the...

The Louvin Brothers

Sounds like a new fiddle tune to me (despite the math of the matter). Love it. Keep writing more.

Mike, thanks for mentioning this cd since it contains the little-known "El Paso Waltz." I think this was the Blakes' and James Bryan's first recording of this tune, which they played years ago. ...

Wonderful version of this tune on Turtle Island String Quartet's *A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane*.