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I received a T-shirt with this mandolin print design. Unfortunately it's too small and as it was ordered bespokely it's non-returnable. The size is Large but too small for me. The...

Count me in! Good luck everyone!

If I had to pick just one I probably would go for the Garcia/Grisman first album. It is one of those 'go to' albums for me - when you can't of what to put on that one always does it for me no matter...

There have been some really good responses and tips on this thread so far. It's been a good read.

I recently played a gig that was the biggest set up we've done. It was a 'good cause' gig and...

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Andy Statman
Mike Marshall
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Chris Thile

I didn't know you were married to my wife!

That dude is handsome!

I second this one. You can see Mike's approach to placing your fingers and using chords to make a melody.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I've picked up on some new stuff! Any more ideas out there?

Nice suggestion! Now if you could pick only one track...

I've done this sort of thing before on the cafe and it's always worked out good for me. Essentially i trust the good taste out there! I have enough credit left to buy 10 songs from iTunes. Please...

His 'Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band' album is also a fine bluegrass album but throws in enough twists and difference to sound apart from many other bluegrass type recordings. I think he offers a certain...

My 'Ah-ha' moment when after years of only moderately achieving any competence on guitar I picked up a mandolin and thought "ah-ha" - I found my instrument!

There's probably not likely to be a readily available tab for this tune but he plays a lot of standard blues mandolin licks. Try a C chord and playing along from there. A lot of this style of playing...

Red Haired Boy. My guitar player and mostly always open with Bluegrass Stomp and then Red Haired Boy.

Nice one sir! I've been toying with idea of getting a solid body electric OM. This is helping to convince me...

Love it. I'd buy the CD twice it'd be so good!

I mucked around with guitar before seriously getting into the mandolin. When I've gone back to guitar I've found that my right hand technique with a pick is so much better and my approach to working...

I had a zero fret installed a la zero glide but mine wasn't a Goldtone product but a local luthier made it for me. I thought the whole thing sounded brighter when i first got it done and I suppose my...

Andy Statman is indeed a force of nature. His Jazz Mandolin book is just brilliant. The bluegrass lesson at the beginning is mind blowing! If you're not the jazz thing Ted Eschliman's Getting Into...

I had the chance to play one when I bought my Summit. Unfortunately the Phoenix was too out of my price range but of all the mandolins I played that day (that were out of my price range - including...

Red Haired Boy was the first tune I got good at and convinced me that mandolin was the way forward.

The wife and I bought ourselves an iPad and to test it I bought Jim Richter's book. It's functionality has impressed my good lady so much that she uses it to demonstrate the power of this awesome wee...

Antifogmatic is good and has more of a song based structure rather than extended pieces. The deluxe version is for diehards I suppose. Songs like Rye Whiskey are excellent:

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All Ivan's choices are great especially the Herschel Sizemore one. It's great. Sam Bush's DVDS are excellent and he is a good teacher.