Frank Wakefield, The Kitchen Tapes and the Red Allen anthology has more early Frank on it. His latest one "Don't Lie to Me" has some great Frank originals on it.
Frank Wakefield, The Kitchen Tapes and the Red Allen anthology has more early Frank on it. His latest one "Don't Lie to Me" has some great Frank originals on it.
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No, wrong. He's the one who is famous for saying:Originally Posted by (AlanN @ Mar. 21 2005, 14:21)
"You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around."
The banjo quote was somebody else.
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A real good source for instrumentals: Pincastle cds Bluegrass 95- 2001. lot of standard tunes with Benson on mando except 95 where Steffey played on all the cuts but 3 I belive. As for singing stuff, I think the IIIrd tyme out stuff with Bibey is jawdropping. Old Lou Ried does some tastful mando playing in my opinion as well. Don
I been through the mountians on a mule with no name.
O.K. fatt-dad continues. Realizing I was fueling and may not have been fully provoked, I'll offer the following, "who cares?" Not to be glib, but if Elvis is the father of Rock and Roll, I would not go get alot of Elvis if someone wanted to build a R&R collection. Same for Louis Armstrong. For me the genre is a matter of taste - albet arbitrary. If I'm going to put on some Jazz, I would bet you anything that Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong would not be my first choice. I respect their contributions, but I'm more drawn to the likes of Coltrane and Davis, Les McCann, Ritchie Cole, etc., etc.
I took the purpose of this post to be, "hey, let's hear some ideas". Not a matter of whether my ideas were the best ones or not.
fatt i'm off my stump dad
ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
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..Fatt..very well thought out a relayed....I cant say that I dont agree with you..
My only question is that if the manzanita album isn't bluegrass then what is it?
Has the bluegrass inquisition begun? Burn baby burn! (just keeding)
I first got into bluegrass in the 70's, a pretty sad period musically in a lot of ways, but Will the Circle Be Unbroken (vol 1)holds up a heck of a lot better than most music from that era. I'd Also recommend the Kentucky Colonels, and anything with Kenny Baker
not that all the above is mando driven per se but still have something for the mandolinist to ponder
Yeah man - that first "Will the Circle..." lp had a huge affect on me. Doc Watson's "Tennesee Stud" really knocked me out. Not a ton of mando, but an encylclopedia of great tunes - bluegrass or not.
Also, a lot of mando players are more influenced by fiddle players -Kenny Baker, Uncle Pen, Vasser, Thomason, etc.
..its Bluegrass...nuff said....just because there isnt a 'jo in it doesnt mean anything different...hell...may all the 'jo players were booked those days the Lp was recorded.
Amen, Scotti. Blessed are the banjo-less.
Some ban)o player?
Lucky - will the circle and TN stud were right there at the beginning for me also.
f-d
ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
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(I quite really expect the answer to be WSM. It sounds right for him to say, "the bluegrass music".)
ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
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Herschel Sizemore- Bounce Away
Also check out Jimmy Martin's work with Vernon Derrick on Mandolin
Joe Val's One Morning in may album was always very inspiring to me anyway
I also like some of Tony Williamson's recordings and for in your face mandolin I go with Buzz Busby's starday recoedings....
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All hail to the glory of Frank Wakefield, Buzz Busby and Bill Monroe
Hey Trav..I really respect your choices there...they are some forces to be reckoned with..like how many times has Derricks and Busbys name showed up here on this forum....and you cant omit Red Rector....alll these young guns need to go back and listen to where it started....with Thile,,,Steffey..etc..I think not.
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The Dillards "Back Porch Bluegrass" and "Live Almost" are must haves. Also the Greenbriar Boys "Vanguard Years" is another. Grisman's original "Old and in the Way" and the first Rounder David Grisman are also keepers.
Go Vandals!
Man...I almost forgot about the David Grisman Rounder Album...sweet.
Be sure to get "Roger Williams Plays Bill Monroe." And one of the leading bluegrass albums of all time is The Montovani Orchestra, "Bluegrass Gold." But my all time personal favorite is Barry Manilow, "I Didn't Write the Songs, Bill Monroe Did." A true bluegrass classic, with excellent synthesizer and the best drum machine ever recorded!
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Country Gentlemen Live in Japan, JD Crowe and the New South and that Jerry Douglas album where he's leaning on the old car, which is really a compilation of some of his recording career, that spans fluxology to whatever that other flux-album is. . . .
f-d
ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
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Uh oh, forgot to add "Act IV" by the Seldom Scene and the first Newgrass Revival Album, which isn't bluegrass at all, it is sacriligous-grass though (for the time). I mean those folks in their folding chairs in the 70s, just didn't get the NGR.
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Mr. Manilow's "ooh Mandy" on mandolin really blew me away. My older sister's lp collection was a HUGE influence on my mandolin playing.
Bryan Sutton's "Bluegrass Guitar". Bryan does some great flatpicking, but Tim O'Brien does some really great stuff on the mandolin. It also features Tim Crouch on fiddle. Good CD.
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