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Larry Perkins has been with Jimmy's family. He says they brought Jimmy home yesterday. Here is a link to what Perk wrote (it's at the bottom) Jimmy's Condition

I read on another board that Marc MacGlashan had left the Gibsons. On their website it says that Rick Hayes from Ohio is the new mandolin picker and Clayton Campbell from Kentucky has joined the band...

I've been a Del fan for a long, long time. I think I've got it all, everything from a couple of early 45's, a bunch of vinyl, cassettes and CD's. Almost all of Del's music is better than just about...

My wife and I are huge fans of both The Gibson Brothers and King Wilkie. We also like Open Road and The Steep Canyon Rangers. There are some great "newer" bands coming along.

I've got "King of My World" and I like it a lot. It stays in my truck. that should tell you something http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif I've also got The Gibson...

Grisman introducing Joe Val: "he's the only Italian yankee in the universe who can sing bluegrass".

Scotty Stoneman after Clarence White's mic went out: "we're really enjoying Clarence's picking...

I overheard a conversation between two mandolin players/collectors recently. One guy said that the original Army-Navy Gibsons were produced especially for soldiers in WWI to carry in their knapsacks....

One of my pals drove all day to go to that workshop. He picks a little Banjo so he signed up for Scott T.'s workshop. He said there were lots of guitar students for Kenny Smith and lots of students...

Marc is a "hoss". His work on the new Gibson Bros CD is great stuff. If you've got the new CD there is a "secret" track right after "Satan's Jeweled Crown" that is a great little tearjerker story...

I have seen King Wilkie twice before. When I first saw them I thought "Jamgrass" ala Sam, String, RR Earth, etc but they have stayed acoustic and petty much to the traditional BG sound. I have their...

1. After their sister left Roland, Eric and Clarence were known as The Three Little Country Boys
2. Muleskinner Blues is probably the best known. He also played guitar on I'm Goin Back to Old...

A local luthier here has experimented with different tonewoods. He has a beautiful all maple mandolin with a light golden brown finish in his shop. He says it's the prettiest mandolin he's ever made...

I remember when David introduced Joe Val as the only person who could sing Bill Monroe with an Italian Yankee accent. It got a huge laugh from the crowd and "Diamond Joe" especially. I believe he and...

Being relatively new to the mandolin world I happened on a few old vinyl 33 1/3's which I purchased at a junk shop. My main motivation was a mandolin or a mandolin player in a group on the cover....

Three of us went to a festival in Asheville, N.C. in 2000. Myself and one of the guys went to listen to a band rehearsing for that nights show. My other buddy went to the vendor tables. He has a...

They are out there but you have to hunt for them. I saw a young fellow in a band at a fest last summer playing a rough looking mandolin with no name on the headstock. The tone was beautiful and the...

I know a ba*jo picker who does business with Mr. C.E. He told me he that he went to Concord N.C. to pick up his noisemaker recently and Mr. C.E. was working on a new mando. He's still in the biz.
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We play a variety of folk, gospel, blues, country, early rock, beatles and of course bluegrass at our weekly jams. Sometimes we even have (gasp) a drummer. 2 of the guys are in a part time touring...

The Not Necessarily Bluegrass Acoustic String Band[B]

Lloyd and the Bluegrass Loar
BMW and the BRW's
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