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Bernie,
The Dillards version is on the album Roots and Branches.

I like that it doesn't have the cheesy soggy bottom third person chorus but it has (to me) some pretty useless twangy mandolin...

Thanks Mike for the links! Both are great.

Thanks Steve, I should not let my admiration for the Planxty guys get in the way of historical accuracy. :redface:

These are the guys that then and there planted the bouzouki (at the time there wasn't such a thing as "irish bouzouki") and mandolin, from nowhere, solidly in Irish folk music. Their influence can...

I love that little descending F scale, and use it often. It is somewhere in Jethro's Mel Bay books too.

I posted a little illustration on youtube of what might be called "floating" or something...

What Niles said, plus (I think) minimising pick use by spicing up with (large interval!) hammers and pulls, and melodic (glissando like) slides.

I hear many mandolin players do a "ka-chick" instead, hitting the unmuted and hardly fretted strings strings with an upstroke somewhere between the ghost boom and chop chick.

For some reason I...

@ JaHe
Many questions. Mostly about theory. Theory and crosspicking are a bees nest and there has been a some dispute about naming the aspects of the techniques and the techniques themselves.
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Mixing up cross string patterns is tough, but fun:

I'll share a little demo of my attempts:

http://youtu.be/drPGJMc1RC8

Could it have been you, Niles, who once opened my eyes to how the slightest bit of vibrato or bending could help on the mandolin to make sustained notes actually sound sustained?
In my words, and...

Mike Compton's intro to "I'll be rested"!
Tim O'Brien's ending of "Untold stories"!

Dempsey Young's mandolin sound developed my taste for some extra oomph under the bite in a good f hole mandolin. More important, I have always deeply admired the creativity and fun he put in his...

I went to see them in (where?) Enschede, the Netherlands. I love their sound, songs and groove. Go see them if you can.

She's cheating. I say she's cheating. She plays from the elbow, not the wrist! She plays a single stringed instrument! She supports with her pinky!

Anyone have the mandolin case with Monroe´s hands?

A friend once ripped the double page pic from a library book, because he thought I'd like it. I did, ... in a way.

When I was a kid I went to see Delia Bell and Bill Grant. Bill let me play his mandolin. For some reason I suspect that might have been a loar. Does anyone know if that could be true? If so, that...

Niles Hokannen, in one of his early booklets pointed out how much Jethro Burns' sizzling and stunningly creative solo's on "Wade Ray and the country fiddlers: Down Yonder" influenced the hot pickers...

Woo-hoo!

Shh, Olaf, and you just might be able to hear that Flatbush in Norway from where you are.
The new Flatbushes have a special X-based bracing pattern that gives both the signature Flatbush...

I think it will not help you much to gain speed on the mandolin.
The double strings will get in the way for economy picking compared to how it can be done effectively on guitar. Picking two string...

If anyone is interested in a hard but pretty arrangement that I made of the tune for solo mandolin send me a pm and I will send a tab and add a lofi recording.

It's slightly less lyrical than the...

Enjoy the plateaus, fear the slopes.

20 miles north of munich in wippenhausen is rudi and monika vogel's streichholz-schachtel.

They have a nice selection of bluegrass instruments there too.

Yep.
Alas, weather and audience were on the cool side. However, Big Bear has always been a relaxed happening. I saw John Reischman (GO Persons) there, Tim O'Brien, Douglas/O'Conner/Rowan, the...

Weird. Maybe I am being Dutch here, but I don't see any opposable opinions in the song, just a story that can (and probably will) make some people scratch their heads and think their thing. I also...

Yesterday I went to see Jenny Whiteley and Joey White, from Canada, here in the Netherlands. Joey is a very creative mandolin player, and from the back of the bar I could hear the amazing quality of...