Recommmend me some mandolin-heavy bluegrass.

[Blip]

Please?

[Kentucky]

Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys

[Dan Margolis]

Jim & Jesse--their bluegrass stuff. Their country material is wonderful, but not much mandolin.

[AlanN]

A vast pool.

Where bandleader is the mandolin picker:

Bill Monroe
Doyle Lawson
Joe Val
Seldom Scene (with John Duffey)
Ricky Skaggs

[Steve Cantrell]

Nashville Bluegrass Band--especially anything w/ Mike Compton
David Davis and the Warrior River Boys
David Grisman--especially the "Home is Where the Heart Is" set and "Bluegrass Reunion"

[Denny Gies]

David Grisman, et. al. "Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza", anything by Herschel Sizemore, The Dreadful Snakes, and a second for Home is Where the Heart Is with David Grisman and a bunch of pretty good pickers.

[swampstomper]

Another super band leader / mando picker was Vern Williams. If you like Monroe style, David McLaughlin with the JMB is featured prominently. A tremendous player who was always up front in the band was Paul (Humphreys) Williams on most of the Decca sides from Jimmy Martin -- he now leads the Victory Trio and has a wonderful mando-centric approach to bluegrass gospel music.

And when you are ready to get far out... Buzzby and Wakefield.

[Ernie Campbell]

Bill Monroe,Stanley Brothers,Red Allen,Flatt and Scruggs,JD Crowe, just to name a few.

[Steve Perry]

Bluegrass Album Band... Any of them... All of them. There's plenty of Doyle Lawson on them all.

[Dan Johnson]

uh... Bill Monroe. And definitely check out Del McCoury and his sons... Ronnie is the mandolin player and he's got one of my favorite sounds out there today...

[Mandolusional]

Mike Compton, David Long, Osborne Brothers

[Mike Bunting]

Bill Monroe,Stanley Brothers,Red Allen,Flatt and Scruggs,JD Crowe, just to name a few.

He asked for mandolin heavy bluegrass, I wouldn't put Flatt and Scruggs or the Stanleys for that matter, in that category.

[Tempotantrum]

I would second the Del Mccroury (sp?) band. Ronnie is one of the best around today for Monroe style. Also check out Blue Moon Rising. Great sounding group with lots of Mando (the banjo, guitar and bass are fantastic as well!)

[Rick Schmidlin]

Bill Monroe is the anwer

[man dough nollij]

The first (self-titled) Hot Rize album.

Also, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder's Live at the Charleston Music Hall has some of the cleanest, fastest bluegrass mandolin licks I've ever heard.

[John Kasley]

After you get Monroe's "Bluegrass Instrumentals", get Red Allen/Frank Wakefield "Red Allen, Frank Wakefield and the Kentuckians" Folkways album originally issued in 1964 and recently reissued by Smithsonian on CD/
http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=287.

At the time, Frank took bluegrass mandolin where it had never been before. Album was produced by a young David Grisman. If you listen closely, you can identify some of Frank's ideas that Grisman has incorporated in his own music.

And if you appreciate superb banjo playing listen on this same album to Pete Kuykendall's break on Little Maggie (past and current editor of Bluegrass Unlimited), and Bill Keith's astounding break on New Camptown Races.

Red Allen's voice is in fine shape on this album too.

[Nolan]

Adam Steffey has a new CD coming out... there should be some good stuff on that.
http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/new-...-adam-steffey/

Anything Alan Bibey is on will be mandolin heavy... early IIIrd Tyme Out, Blueridge, and now Grasstowne.

[Mike Snyder]

Any and all Hot Rize, any Laurie Lewis that has Tom Rozum on it. Tim O'Brien strays a bit from bluegrass, but, as with Rozum, taste-tone-virtuosity. Any of his post-Hot Rize is sweet.
You must realize by now; Bluegrass mandolin= Bill Monroe.

[Bigtuna]

The new Del discs (50 years, 50 songs). Ronnie plays most/maybe all of the mandolin on it I want to say. Very nice set to get, book and all, very well put together and you get a whole lot of Del.

[HddnKat]

The cuts I'm hearing off that new Sarah Jaroz CD have some pretty sweet mandolin playing on 'em.

[Blip]

Thanks a lot!

The Bill Monroe stuff I have found is slower and sounds more like country to my ears. Anything you recommend me to check out?

I'm more looking for that typical fast bluegrass playing.

[Mike Snyder]

Rawhide! Son, that "slower" ain't no part of nothin'. Monroes Hornpipe, Salt Creek, Old Dangerfield, Bluegrass Part 1, Roanoak, Bill Cheatum. Bluegrass is not Bill Monroe, exclusively, but that's sure as he** where it starts.

[Mike Bunting]

Thanks a lot!

The Bill Monroe stuff I have found is slower and sounds more like country to my ears. Anything you recommend me to check out?

I'm more looking for that typical fast bluegrass playing.

Is this what it has come to? You don't think that bluegrass is country, slick?

[Mike Snyder]

At this point, I'm not sure that this can go anywhere good.

[mandolirius]

Bluegrass Breakdown, Tennessee Blues, Bluegrass Stomp, Wheel Hoss, Get Up John, Dusty Miller, Stoney Lonesome, Jerusalem Ridge, Cheyenne and on and on...