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I don't know, maybe since Homer? At least since Aristotle, who divided poetry into lyric, epic and dramatic forms, with lyric poetry specifically referring to song.

Maybe he thinks he's better than Henry Kissinger.

Neil Young is an Americana musician? I thought he was Canadiana.

I often find myself in jams with kids half my age. They love Wagon Wheel and play it often. I used to roll my eyes, but I've learned to love it. Not because I like the song, but because I love the...

DataNick, as you yourself said in the original post, it's "Just an observation."

Far from attacking "traditional bluegrassers," I am a traditional bluegrasser. Many of my friends and jam-mates are...

Google "dubstep" and you'll get over three times as many hits as "bluegrass."

It's amazing how insular bluegrassers can be in their awareness of other kinds of music. The truth is, the fan base...

That tune got a whole lot easier for me the day I realized you can play the entire fourth part in second position. Start that part by sliding your ring finger up to the 7th fret E note on the A...

I can't say how they sound "generally," but I've played one late 30s F5 that sounds great, one of the best mandos I've ever heard. Very balanced, present and punchy, a lot like Sam Bush's. It also...

All three of them have a marker at the 17th fret, but the position where the neck joins the body seems to vary quite a bit between the three. The middle one, in particular, looks to be about a fret...

Did they use the same nickel tailpieces and just add gold plating to create the gold ones?

Open bluegrass jam on Wednesday nights here:
Millcreek Bar and Grill
2020 E 3300 S

And on Sunday nights here:
Club 90
9065 S Monroe St, Sandy

The biggest single gathering of pickers all...

Here you go.

That's the very album I put on last night to remember Tut. His dobro playing is also great on it. Sometimes it seems like the that whole band is about to fly apart from the sheer...

Mark O'Connor plays extremely fine instruments, including a modern Jonathan Cooper and an 1830 J.B. Vuillaume, and he has often played unamplified as a soloist in front of a full orchestra using the...

Are you sure? It seems to me a lot of the transcriptions are pretty dumbed down and sometimes just plain wrong, even compared to the sources cited.

I once played a tune at a festival, and when I...

Maybe there should be a section of the forum dedicated exclusively to:

A. Scientific proof why Stradivari violins are so good
B. Scientific proof that Stradivari violins aren't so good after all

I have a violin that needed a repair requiring the neck to be removed. I took it to a very competent violin maker who asked if I'd like to watch as he removed the neck using his "karate chop"...

I've played that mandola a few times, and was also there at Weiser when Patrick Sauber was playing it as mentioned in post #8. I got to hear John Relph play it there as well, and of course I've heard...

OK, I'll play nice.

I have nothing but respect for science, and if well-designed studies demonstrate that there's no measurable change as instruments are played over time, I'm not in any position...

Wow Randy, you're such a charmer.

Carry on your mandolin, carry on another bag, and if you have a third bag, check it. If you can't do that, you're someone seeking to avoid baggage claim.

And move along please, because there's 100...

The #1 reason flying is such a miserable experience is people who believe they deserve special treatment.

If you're allowed two carry-ons, and one of them is your mandolin, figure out how to get...

Here's a photo of his Smart mandola when it was new, about 10 years ago.

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I don't know what I'd call Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder when they're playing "country" songs, but I do know what I'd call the guy in the audience who yelled out, "That isn't anything like like...

To those of you who believe musicians should "know when to quit":

What do you do for a living? Is your best work behind you? How come you don't know when to quit?

For that matter, maybe your...