That's good to hear! Getting to experience a few really good mandos has been the high point of my Nashville trips for years.
If that Dude you played is the one that's been in inventory for a year...
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That's good to hear! Getting to experience a few really good mandos has been the high point of my Nashville trips for years.
If that Dude you played is the one that's been in inventory for a year...
Carter's used to be the greatest music store in the world. Probably still is, but it ain't quite what it used to be. The first time I went, the sales guy left me alone playing a Loar in a room full...
I'm not from Nashville, but I stay in Air BnBs in Nashville a couple times/yr. As someone said, Nashville is *expensive*! Small condos in the downtown area (Gulch, Arts District, etc.) will run...
I had a very early Ron Cole F-5 that was at least 1/4" deeper than Loar-spec. It was a little boomy and unfocused. Not having any sense at the time (big money work on a little money mando), I had a...
The current MSBA newsletter also lists two BG gospel jams in DeKalb; one at Wiggins Chapel on first Fridays and at Mt Olive on 3rd Fridays. No times or contact info for either.
I just got a Facebook message from Andy Linton, the organizer of the Whynot jam. It's at the Grand Oaks Bluegrass Hall on Causeyville-Whynot Road, off Hwy 19 south of Meridian. He says it goes down...
There’s a fair amount of bluegrass around there. Nothing that I know of in the way of OT or Celtic.
I believe there’s a regular BG jam in the Whynot community about 15 miles south of Meridian. ...
Hate I missed you. I was there all weekend. I only made it 'till 2:30-3 am, though.
Ditto to everything you said. After some declining years, a brief rally, then covid, SPBGMA is back in good...
I know of a few from Jackson south to the coast, and I can probably find something in the Oxford-Memphis area. What part of the state are you in?
Barry Collins
Hattiesburg, MS area
Tuckers were my dream mandos for a long time. I thought I'd bought yours (#16) a few years ago, but the seller ghosted me after the deal was made.
After swearing that I'd never buy sight unseen again, I did just that with my used NF Gen 4. Since I didn't even know what it was *supposed* to sound like and was wondering if I got a "good one", I...
Some of you may have seen an F-style Pickett mandolin in the Bill Monroe Museum at Beanblossom and assumed it was given to Monroe as many others were. I learned the real story today and, if you like...
I've had the good fortune to have hands on a half dozen or so Loars...some great, some not so much...but David Harvey was traveling with one back in maybe the late 90s-early 00s that was easily the...
'63 Chevy Nova wagon. Seats down, windows down, big skeeter net over the whole car. Parked close to the bathrooms.
Yep. Spotify suggested it to me a couple months ago and they were Spotify-on with the recommendation. Love the laid-back groove and the clear, sparse feel of the recording. The fact that they're...
Here's an OT vs BG discussion session from Augusta. Compton talking about OT mando at 29:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQz1trMf3HU
Surprising that few mention Compton in these OT mandolin threads. He plays a lot of OT around Nashville and set something of a mold for mando rhythm during his time with the Hartford String Band. ...
What a timely thread. I saw something last night that I'm itching to tell someone about:
Was walking around the SPBGMA convention in Nashville and came up on a hot bluegrass jam that included a...
Jimmy Martin -
Pete, The Best Coon Dog in TN...
Run Pete Run - Aww, jus' listen what a jaw on a dog!
This thread may never die
Y'all going?
Also, Gerald Evans and Joe Mullins have a pretty great BG fiddle and banjo recording from a few years back: Five String and a Fiddle, I think.
Then there's Michael Cleveland and Tom Adams' Live At...
Johnny Warren and Charlie Cushman! Sounds just for the world like Earl and Johnny's daddy, Paul, back in the good ol' days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXe3WbIggu0
They have an album or...
Since the early 80's:
Epiphone MM-50 - friend still has it
Carl Cates "Bellmaster" F-5 - owned since late 90's
Ron Cole RC-5 #9 - owned 20+ years and traded
Pavel Sucek F-5 re-topped by Skip...
If you like that album, you'll love this video. It was only two years ago, but Terry Barber's voice was much stronger. The father-son connection was in full bloom as always. No Ronnie, though.
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