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My new old Mandolin! Lorraine Jordan has made me the happiest Mando picker on the planet..

Straight from the horse's mouth. Couldn't be happier for one heckuva of a picker and nice guy, to boot....

I like those books/transcriptions which have both TAB and std. notation in the staves, one directly above/below the other. Niles' books do this, Grisman's, Ray Legere's, Don Stiernberg's, too. Same...

Yeah, I remember the buzz about boiling strings to increase life, back when I started picking and money was tight. Never did try it, seems like it would be tough to re-string once done. I trim my...

Mind The Gap

(repeated recorded PA announcement in the London tubes)

I picked on that one before Caleb got it. F5Loar took me over to Harry West's place in Granite Quarry where it resided. As I recall, it had the Monroe peghead break and someone had bound the jagged...

Thanks, Mike. Forgot about The Scene on that one. And Southern Rail, gee - blast from the past. Saw them a few times. Jim Rohrer was their (first?) mandolin picker. Jim birthed Small Dog case covers.

The Gibson Bros. covered Ophelia very well.

Re-visiting this tune, from ear and a book by Robert Bowlin called Twin Mandolin Workshop. Robert lays out the melody and twin in a very hip fashion. Despite the poor tab notation, one can gather the...

Maybe.

That is one of those terms that seems to be used subjectively. I visited with a well-known Loar owner, he showed me one of his Loars. It had some wear marks on it. I said "Very nice". He...

Refreshing and cool, thanks!

Loosen up your wrist, hold the pick loosely. And work it like you're flinging water off your hand.

Ooh, a bluegrass dictionary, me like...

One band which jacked with pulse, rhythms was OAITW - some hobos in there - lol. Granted, not truly a recording, full-time band, but recordings were...

Sounds like a tune, and it may be, but this refers to a Todd Phillips remark in the Tony Rice autobio, about timing.

Todd likens the Rice timing thing to just that. The train hums along at pretty...

Looks like a dandy. Has the older style tailpiece.

oh man.

And that little leg kick he does when he backs away is pure Derrick.

Yes, lovely playing there.

He has been a force for decades. I bought a Heights of Grass record (CMH label) back in the day - 1980 or so - on which Vernon played mandolin. His take on Alabama...

And even though these boys didn't do the leisure suit thing, they were slaves to fashion...oh those bellbottoms!

You mean this era?

Hey Mike, my Spidey Sense is tingling!

And what mandolirius said.

True. The beauty of Bossa is just that.

Triste...and very nice.

My fave vocal recording of that tune is by Sinatra and Jobim. Frank sings it in English, then Jobim in Portugese, then they harmonize in English, sends chills up the spine...

Yep, loads of name pickers use it.

I remove these parts and pack separately before shipping:

Bridge
Tailpiece cover
endpin

Thanks, Jeff. Picked it again this AM, had the chord progression in the B part wrong. I think it's

F (2 bars)
Bb (2 bars)
F (2 bars)
Bb (1 bar)
then A major (1 bar+)
back to Gm

It's a feel...

I, too, would dig these. I *think* it has an Em9 tonality.