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Agree about the wall hanger but if children and animals aren't an issue and you'd prefer a stand, the only one I feel safe with is the Hamilton KB38 "hanger" stand. Suspends the instrument from the...

Somewhere in storage I have a copy of the Bluegrass Time LP autographed by Monroe and Baker along with the other three early-1980s Blue Grass Boys (Wayne Lewis, Blake Williams and Mark Hembree). As I...

It's on their first duo album Blake and Rice. And believe it or not I've heard the song at bluegrass jams in Paris in recent years...

Being as tall as I am, I was able to adapt these yoga mandolin chords to mandocello. With the increased range that the daily stretching has given me, my left hand now covers a four-octave span on...

And has been the fiddler in yet another great Scottish band, the Tannahill Weavers, for the last 20-something years...

Because they're great music and sound beautiful played on mandolin.

That's a sufficient reason for me, but I'd also add that the idea that transposing the Cello Suites (or anything else by Bach)...

Hi Andrew, just noticed you're from my home state of Maryland - the shops you mentioned are definitely your best bet locally for trying a wide range of mandolins (thereby sinking the hook deeper) :)...

My recording of Coleman's March/Bonaparte's Retreat in the Old-Time section of Mandolin Café mp3-land is solo mandolin in Dead Man's tuning, to give you an idea of what's possible there...

I've heard the Jody Stecher/Pete Wernick/sociology experiment theory from Ira Gitlin too. FWIW, on the Red Clay Ramblers' 1979 live album "Chuckin' the Frizz," you can distinctly hear one of them...

Sure, I remember them - good band, with especially impressive vocals. Saw them live several times at bluegrass festivals in the late 70s/early 80s. They made two albums independently and two for...

Gotta add one of my absolute favorites: Winter Tidings by Al Petteway and Amy White. A goodly amount of mandolin (Amy) and bouzouki (Al), along with guitars, Celtic harp, piano, Appalachian dulcimer,...

Has anybody else noticed that the graphic of the two turtles is an imitation of the Grateful Dead's Terrapin Station album cover? Nice choice...

It's a bit cold for street performance this time of year (though I suppose stranger things have happened...)

There's a weekly entertainment guide called Pariscope, available at any newsstand,...

Indeed - definitely well worth taking a trip to TAMCO if he's in Paris for several months. No need to fly, though; the Eurostar train from Paris (Gare du Nord) to London (St. Pancras) is much more...

The favorite for acoustic instruments is François Charle, in the 1st arrondissement (central Paris, near the Louvre).

Other than that, there's a whole neighborhood of guitar shops in the Pigalle...

An amazing thing about Folkways was its policy that all titles on the label were to stay in print perpetually. That was part of its founder Moses Asch's vision. When he willed Folkways to the...

That one's on CD too. :) Good stuff.

Remember, a lot of the classic early bluegrass (Monroe, Stanleys, Flatt & Scruggs) was originally released two songs at a time on 78-RPM singles, so LPs of that material are already reissue...

That one is available on CD, actually.

A couple I would recommend for a quick-'n-easy bluegrass education would be Volumes 1 and 2 of "The Bluegrass Album" by J.D. Crowe, Tony Rice, Doyle Lawson,...

HMT's fretted instrument repairmen are Steve Carmody and Marc Glickman - I can vouch for Steve, he's Martin factory authorized and did an excellent neck reset on my J40 a while back. Marc's never...

Really? Have you asked at Appalachian Bluegrass Shoppe in Catonsville, Guitars of Pikesville in Pikesville (obviously) :) or House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park? Or gotten in touch with the...

When I was twelve or thirteen I was learning guitar and piano but had no real musical focus to speak of. Then one evening my dad stopped at a yard sale on his way home from work and bought a couple...

About the only ones I can think of that aren't already on your list are "Me and My Guitar" and "Native American," two of my favorites, which I think of as companion volumes. Recorded in 1987 and...

Funny you should mention that in connection with a Gordon Lightfoot song... One that's always bugged me is "Ten Degrees and Getting Colder." I love the song, and just once I'd like to hear played in...

All right, I have to post on this one...

A couple of years ago a mysterious swelling appeared at the base of the nail on my right index finger. I went to a local doctor, who prescribed antibiotics...