Looking for Mandolin/Guitar Duos to listen to.

[Nick Pooch]

Not quite sure where to put this. Even understand its a bit of a needy thread seeing as how I have no reward. But I seem to have figured out that I can learn more from listening to how a mandolin accompanies a guitar and pick out more precisely what's going on when it's just the two. Or sometimes a big (b)ass third.

I read through a similar thread from 2007 here. While there's a lot there I haven't given chance yet. There's also a lot I have. So if ya feel like it what's a nice current mandolin guitar duo or trio (bass) that has a CD for sale. Maybe even one that's up and coming. I appreciate any suggestions.

Nick P

[Josh Levine]

Well I really like billy strings and Don Julin rock of ages, frank Wakefield and red Allen kitchen tapes and some of the Kentucky Colonels stuff highlights Roland and Clarence duos.

[sgarrity]

Get Live by Mike Compton and Joe Newberry. And the several recordings by Jimmy Gaudreau and Moondi Klein. Also Caleb Klauder has two different duo albums out.

[Ivan Kelsall]

There's always the classic recording by Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice - "Skaggs & Rice" to add to your collection,
Ivan

[johnbaxter]

Here's a few of my favorite mando/guitar albums:

John Reischman and John Miller - The Bumpy Road
John Reischman and John Miller - The Singing Moon
Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice - Skaggs & Rice
Danny Knicely and Will Lee - Murders, Drownings and Lost Loves
David Grisman and Martin Taylor - Live at Wigmore Hall
David Peters and Kelly Lancaster - Live at Ovations
Doc Watson and David Grisman - Doc & Dawg
Don Stiernberg and John Carlini - By George
Johnny Staats and Robert Shafer - Pickin' Up Steam

[Tobin]

Chris Thile and Michael Daves. But they play so darn fast that it's difficult to analyze what they're doing sometimes.

[Caleb]

Caleb Klauder and Reeb Wilms.

[Steve VandeWater]

I second the Billy Strings/Don Julin album Rock of Ages. Great stuff. Their newer one, Fiddle Tune X is good too but I like the first one better.

[Nick Pooch]

Thanks for all the replies. I'm actually seeing Billy and Don on Sunday but I can't admit to owning or really listening to a lot of the stuff they put out together. Thanks for all the suggestions lots of stuff in this thread I haven't listened to yet.

[John Ritchhart]

I really like these guys,

[Jon Hall]

David Grisman and Tony Rice "Tone Poems I"

[Atlanta Mando Mike]

Like john hall said, tone poems I is the pinnacle to me.

[Randi Gormley]

Not bluegrass (more jazz, choro, a bit of classical, some modern) Judy Handler and Mark Levesque.

[CWRoyds]

[Michael Wolf]

Marco Pereira and Hamilton de Holanda - Luz das Cordas
A wonderful recording.

[mandroid]

I enjoyed Homer Haynes and Jethro Burns .. ,

[Paul Kotapish]

Tim O'Brien and the O'Boys was a great mandolin-guitar-bass trio with Scott Nygaard and Mark Schatz. Their recordings often featured a few guests, but the core sound was the trio. I liked all their stuff, but the Red on Blond set of Dylan covers is particularly nice. Not a lot of live stuff on YouTube, but there are a few:



Here's one with octave mandolin:

[Paul Kotapish]

Tim's duets with Darryl Scott are great, too:

[UsuallyPickin]

Mike Compton and David Grier recorded two albums together Stomp and Climbing the Walls........ good stuff... R/

[bigskygirl]

I know you said guitar but I'll recommend listening to Emory Lester accompany Mark Johnson on the banjo. Emory and I have talked about the importance of accompiam....accompanying (man, that's a tough word to say and type...ha) another instrument with the mandolin.

Any of their albums are good to listen to how the mandolin can accompani....play along with... another instrument.

To get back to OP's que, take a listen to Eli West and Cahalen Morrison. There are some YT videos out there with Eli on guitar and Cahalen on mandolin.

[homermando]

http://andrewcollinsacousticmusic.co...c-roy-likewise Really nice, mostly original duets!

[Killian King]

David Grisman and Tony Rice "Tone Poems I"

+1

[swampy]

[darylcrisp]

Ardent Spirit, Mark Beale
absolutely wonderful CD with mandolin/guitar/weissenborn

i think Mark actually arranged/wrote/performed the whole CD by laying tracks on top of each other of the different instruments.

he built one of the guitars he plays on the CD as well.

it has some brazillian, blues, and very reflective type songs-no bluegrass.

i just picked up a neat Christmas album from Emory Lester where theres guitar and mandolin-will have to get back to you on the name-i'm at work.
need to check my music, i think i have more(because i play guitar/banjo, so i like those combinations with mandolin).

d

[Mike Bunting]

I really like these two, I listen to them a lot.