Re: 3 Favorite Mandolin CDs (not by Bill, David, Ricky, Sam & Chr
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RBMB
I'm a relatively new mandolin player and would like to expand my CD collection to include items by mandolin players beyond the folks listed above. I've always been a huge fan of David Grisman and have lots of his CDs. In addition, I have a good selection of CDs by Sam Bush, Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs & Chris Thile, including many of the groups they have played with. When I look beyond those folks I know lots of names, but struggle to know which CDs to pick. I would like to get some recommendations, so please list your favorite CDs by a mandolin player other than the ones listed above.
Here's my list:
1. Butch Baldassari, John Reischman & Robin Bullock - Travellers
2. The Anger/Marshall Band - Brand New Can
3. Kentucky Colonels - Appalachian Swing! ( I love Roland White's work on this CD) If you don't think this one should be on the list, then please pretend I listed Aubrey Haynie - Doin' My Time
Thanks, Mark
OK, we’ve got a slug and a half of albums named here over the past twelve years and no one has yet compiled ‘em into one comprehensive list. With a super scoop of apprehension I submit my compilation, below. It’s sorted by artist first name or band name. There will be some things omitted, such as those that gave an artist’s name and said, “anything by” or those that simply gave no album (CD) names at all. I also haven’t sorted by year or by genre, et al. nor have I included any critique. There are 170-some albums here. Feel free to copy, edit, enhance or turn this into a full blown database if that’s how you roll. I’m going to bed, now.
3 Mile Stone: 3 Mile Stone
Adam Steffey: New Primitive
Adam Steffey: One More for the Road#
Allen Bibey $ Wayne Benson: The Mandolin Chronicles
Andrew Collins: Little Widgets
Andy Leftwich: Three Ring Circle
Andy Statman: East Flatbush Blues
Andy Statman: Flatbush Waltz
Andy Statman: Old Brooklyn
Andy Statman: Superstring Theory
Antonello Paliotti Trio: Tarantella Storta
Avi Avital: Between Worlds
Bill Monroe: Master of Bluegrass
Billy Flynn: Chicago Blues Mandolin
Blue Sky Boys: Presenting The Blue Sky Boys
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys: The Tiffany Transcriptions
Bobby Clark: One-Legged Gypsy
Bobby Clark: Top Dog
Bobby Osborne: Bobby and his Mandolin
Brian Oberlin & Josh Feinberg - Bass & Mandolin: Onward
Butch Baldassari & David Schnaufer: Appalachian Mandolin and Dulcimer
Butch Baldassari & John Carlini: Reflections
Butch Baldassari, John Reischman & Robin Bullock: Travellers
Butch Walle: Golden Gate Promenade
Chris Biesterfldt: Urban Mandolin
Chris Henry: Monroe Approved
Dave Apollon: The Man With The Mandolin
David Benedict: The Golden Angle
David Grisman Quintet: David Grisman Quintet
David Grisman, Beppe Gambetta, Carlo Aonzo: Traversata#
David Grisman: Dawg ‘90
David Grisman: Mandolin Extravaganza
David Surette: Northern Roots
David Surette: The Green Mandolin
Doc Watson & David Grisman: Doc & Dawg
Don Julin: Mr Natural#
Don Julin: Tractor
Don Stiernberg & John Carlini: By George
Don Stiernberg & John Carlini: Swing 220
Don Stiernberg: Straight Ahead
Doyle Lawson: Tennessee Dream
Emory Lester: At Dusk
Emory Lester: Cruising the Eights
Emory Lester: Pale Rider
Erik Thompson: Kleptograss
Evan Marshall: The Lone Arranger
Fernando Barroso: Playing Bach, Mozart & Chopin [EP]
Florian Klaus Rumpf: J. S. Bach - Violin Sonatas & Partitas
Foghorn Duo: Lonesome Song
Frank Wakefield: Kitchen Tapes
Fred Geiger: Fred Geiger [with Akira Otsuka]
Gertrud Tröster: Raffaele Calace - 10 Preludes
Grisman, Leslie, Hargreaves and Smith: The Brotet
Growling Old Men: Occupational Hazards
Hamilton de Holanda & Marco Pereira: Luz das Cordas
Hamilton de Holanda: O Baile do Almeidinha
Herschel Sizemore: Bounce Away
Homer & Jethro: Playing It Straight
IIIrd Tyme Out: Back at the MAC
IIIrd Tyme Out: IIIrd Tyme Out
Jacob De Bandolim: Doce de Coco
Jacob Jolliff: Standards Vol 1
Jethro Burns & Tiny Moore: Back To Back
Jethro Burns: Jethro and Friends [American Archive Series]
Jethro Burns: Swing Low Sweet Mandolin
Jimmy Ryan: Lost Diamond Angel
Jimmy Ryan: Mandolin
Joe K Walsh: Borderland
Joe K Walsh: Sweet Loam
John Reischman & the Jaybirds: Stellar Jays
John Reischman, Scott Nygaard, Sharon Gilchrist: The Harmonic Tone Revealers
John Reischman: New Time
John Reischman: North of the Border
John Reischman: Old Acoustic
John Reischman: Up in the Woods
Johnny Staats: Wire and Wood
Julien Martineau: Paradis latin
Kentucky Colonels: Appalachian Swing!
Lou Martin: Recent Work
Luke Plumb: A Splendid Notion
Mandolin Orange: Quiet Little Room#
Matt Flinner Trio: Music Du Jour
Matt Flinner Trio: Winter Harvest
Matt Flinner: Latitude
Matt Flinner: Music du Jour
Matt Flinner: The View From Here
Melonius Quartet: En Forme De Poire
Michael Kerry: The Rocky Road
Mike Compton & David Grier: Climbing the Walls
Mike Compton & David Long: Stomp
Mike Compton & Joe Newberry: Live
Mike Compton: By Request
Mike Compton: Rotten Taters
Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg: Third Journey
Mike Marshall & Choro Famoso: Segunda Vez-Second Time
Mike Marshall & Darol Anger: The Duo Live At Home and on the Range
Mike Marshall Quintet: Tasting the Wine Country
Mike Marshall: Gator Strut
Modern Mandolin Quartet: Modern Mandolin Quartet
Nashville Bluegrass Band: Twenty Years Blues
Nashville Mandolin Ensemble: Beatles, Bach, Bluegrass
Niles Hokkanen: On Fire & Ready!
Nolan Faulkner: The Legendary Kentucky Mandolin of Nolan Faulkner
Norman & Nancy Blake: Natasha's Waltz
Norman & Nancy Blake: Original Underground Music from the Mysterious South
Norman Blake & Red Rector: Norman Blake & Red Rector
Norman Blake & Tony Rice: Norman Blake & Tony Rice 2
Norman Blake: Directions.
Nugget: East of Kentucky
Nugget: Golden Distance
Nugget: Twenty Years of Diggin’
Nugget: Well Hidden
Paul Glass: One More Night
Perfect Strangers: Perfect Strangers
Peter Ostroushko: Coming Down from Red Lodge
Peter Ostroushko: Heart of the Heartland
Peter Ostroushko: Mando Chronicles
Peter Ostroushko: Sluz Duz Music
Peter Rowan & Tony Rice: Quartet
Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band: Legacy
Planxty: The Well below The Valley
Rafael Rabello & Deo Rian: Delicatesse
Raffaele Calace: Duets for Mandolin and Guitar
Ray Legere: Common Denominator
Red Allen & Frank Wakefield: The Kitchen Tapes
Red Henry: Bluegrass Mandolin & Other Trouble
Rich Del Grosso: Get Your Nose Outta My Bizness!
Roland White: I Wasn't Born to Rock and Roll
Russ Barenburg: When At Last
Sam Bartlett: Evil Diane
Sam Bartlett: Evil Dianne
Sam Lyman: New Morning Waltz: Sounds of Mandolin Americana
SHEL: SHEL
Shooglenifty: A Whiskey Kiss
Sierra Hull: Daybreak
Sierra Hull: Secrets
Simon Mayor: New Celtic Mandolin
Simon Mayor: Second Mandolin Album
Skip Gorman: Old Style Mandolin, Vols. 1 & 2
Steep Canyon Rangers: Deep in the Shade
The Bill Hilly Band: All Day Every Day
The Bills: Let 'em Run
The Country Fiddlers: Down Yonder
The Darol Anger-Mike Marshall Band: Brand New Can#
The Del McCoury Band: Cold Hard Facts
The Helsinki Mandoliners: The Helsinki Mandoliners
The Jazz Mandolin Project: The Jazz Mandolin Project
The Lovell Sisters: Time to Grow
The Osborne Brothers: Bobby & His Mandolin
The Seldom Scene: Live at the Cellar Door
The Waterboys: Fisherman's Blues
Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott: Real Time#
Tim O'Brien: Hot Rize
Tim O'Brien: Red on Blonde
Tim O'Brien: The Crossing
Tim O'Brien: Traveler
Tira Poeira: Tira Poeira
Todd Phillips: Released
Tony Rice Unit: Unit of Measure
Tony Williamson: Sessions at McBane Mill
Various Artists: Best Loved Bluegrass - 20 All-Time Favorites
Various Artists: Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza
Various Artists: Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways
Various Artists: Mandolin Artistry Volume 1: Young Mando Monsters
Various Artists: Mandolin Blues
Various Artists: More Ultimate Pickin'
Various Artists: Pickin' on the Allman Brothers: A Bluegrass Tribute
Various Artists: Thirty Years of Bluegrass
Various Artists: Ultimate Pickin'
Watchhouse (Mandolin Orange): Blindfaller
Wayne Benson: An Instrumental Anthology
Will Patton: String Theory
Yank Rachell: Blues Mandolin Man#
Phewff!!!
A couple years in, now, and still learning!
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Eastman MDO-305 Octave Mandolin
Kentucky KM-272
I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
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