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This mandolin was built by my friend Allen Jones from Dixon Missouri. I think he is now in Nashville working for Gibson.

Wayne Benson is a fabulous musician. I first saw him at the Tulsa Chili cook off/bluegrass festival in 1989. Been a fan ever since.

Very nice!!

Thanks Shaun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR5se27ur24&feature=g-upl&context=G270b070AUAAAAAAACAA

My Grandfather, Verdell Williams was the 1st mandolin player I heard. In the forties he had a band called the Abbott Playboys that played all the current country hits and old time fiddle tunes. My...

I thoroughly enjoyed this Ben! Thank you!

I found Mick Goodrick's book very helpful. It really opened the doors for me in learning the fingerboard and introduced me to theory in a way I could grasp and start to understand. I highly recommend...

I just recently purchased the Peterson tuner and am very pleased with it.

I was lucky enough to see him play a lot in the 70's and when I think of Dick Nunnely one word comes to mind to describe him....Excellance. In those days he played in a band from Oklahoma called...

Here is my Gilchrist F5

I've been using a blue chip TPR 60 for the past 2 years. Wegen's are great picks too as well as the pro pec's. But it's all a matter of personal tatse. I've been on the quest for about 40 years. Good...

Here is my 1983 Gilchrist

I love that record!! Jon Glik's fiddle on "I'm Blue I'm Lonesome Too" is a gem!

Ops, didn't mean to do this.

Misti finds the Calton case a comfortable and relaxing place to listen to the mando.

Eighty One from a new recording called "Choose One", by a young jazz guitarist from NW Arkansas named Ryan Fourt. He now lives in Colorado. Great guitar player!

I have to agree...Jesse Cobb is one fine mandolin player!!

Happy Birthday Don! I'll never forget that mandolin workshop we did together at Winfield back in 91' with Radim Zenkl and Dawn Watson. And then the off-stage jam afterwards. I was way out of my...

I too am a big fan of the Wegen and Blue Chip picks. For me it depends on the day as to which pick I use. String age, humidity in the air, the way my hands are working that particular day...or not...

I'll be at Witchita with Lonesome Road. Hope to meet some of you mando cafe brothers there.

Thanks Jason. To know that you and others in the mandohood are interested in one of my tunes means a lot to me. Take care my mando brother!:)

I thought I might chime in here. I wrote Old Jericho Waltz in 1989 on the way to a gig in Chicago with Paul Adkins and the Borderline Band. Ned Luberecki and I recorded it that same year on a...

Ha Ha!! That's for sure!:))

My dad taught me G, C & D in 1970 when I was 9, on a mandolin my grandfather built. The mandolin was built in 1961, the year I was born.