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Yeah, Crooked Road, mostly in Virginia, overlaps some with Country Music highway in Kentucky. I was on much of both in the last two years. Highpoints for me were Butcher Hollow and the Clinch...

I think we get into trouble (but also into interesting discussions) when we think that a simple term can actually encompass the definition of a cultural/human phenomenon that is practiced by so many...

I guess I'm not sure when a "part" is not a part. I play four different parts in the song.

Dix Bruce suggested that I use a metonome to practice tremolo, suggesting that steady tempo is a key component.

Hmmm...a fatwah on harmonica players... I think Mr. Hopkins may be onto something.

My local independent market makes great sausages. I don't ask them how they make them, I just enjoy the results and I aint gonna question how Ricky does what he does.

Well, no bluegrass band has as much sheer horsepower as KT. That band is in a class of its own as far as I'm concerned. Each year at the Hardly Strictly Festival in San Francisco, his gets the young...

I've always heard it referred to as tremolo, never vibrato, which is not to say we're right. I'd trust classical folks to know correct musical terms. As we all know, hillbilly pickers have limited...

I've been working on my double stop tremolo, as in the classic Monroe style, and working on getting it smooth. I'm going with the wrist. I've watched Monroe videos and he's all wrist. I was in a...

Don't you need lefty strings with the lefty pick?

I believe Sam broke his wrist around "94 or thereabouts. I remember Tom Rozum telling the story about how they both had theirs wrists in a cast at about the same time. He said he heard that Sam would...

Yeah, during a workshop, he handed me his Loar to play. I'm left handed so I told him I'd need to saw off the scroll and restring it. Didn't have my sawsall with me though.

Sheesh, I wish I had more dollars than sense.

Saw them at hardly strictly in October. Jody's playing was great. He held that mandolin like a baby and coaxed the sweetest music out of it. Certainly not of the "whip it like a mule" school (not...

Well Tom, I don't believe I've ever been crowded out of a jam, and I myself try to include people and be encouraging to beginners, so I guess I'm not clear on why I might be a shining example of why...

So Tom, how do people get into your jams if they just happen? Only friends, audition first? If you're jamming in a parking lot, that is commonly considered to be an open jam. If you want it to be...

The H is herringbone for their guitars but the early MT2s did have modifying letter for the wood, H was for hard. They dropped the modifier at some point after mine, #152, was made. I think they had...

I learn mandolin from modern recording such as this one much better than from the originals. I don't know if it's due to the recording quality or the fact the Monroe just didn't ENUNCIATE.

I got...

Wow, I wonder how many sales the blue chip folks will get from this thread?

I've never broken one of the tortoise shell picks I make from old antiques items, nor paid more than about $10 per pick.

When I started making picks from antique items I called up an enforcement officer from U.S. Fish and Wildlife to get the skinny from the Federal agency charged with enforcing CITES. He told me that...

I recently was in a jam with Nugget #1, which as a Gibson copy, complete with Gibson logo and flowerpot. Cool old instrument.

I've played a couple of "The Loar" guitars. They look decently made and played adequately, if unimpressively.

I lick my fingers and then rub them together for second to dry them to moist. I never drop a pick any more. I think it has to do with technique.

I can't believe nobody has dredged up the old quote, "bluegrass music, sung from the heart and through the nose," or something like that. I heard a piece on NPR once about the regional singing styles...