Eva Holbrook: Slash's Little Sister & More

**Ed Goist** · Sep-23-2011, 3:14pm

This is pretty cool...
Eva Holbrook tells us about one of her dreams, and performs a killer original tune on her 4-string Schwab Tele-e-mando.
Heck of a dream...
"...Only Barbie guitars..."

**JEStanek** · Sep-23-2011, 5:04pm

Bad dream, cool video!

Jamie

**journeybear** · Sep-23-2011, 9:44pm

Actually, great dream, just a bit of rude treatment there. Nice little number. Ed, you have a very limited amount of time to post this to the Women With Mandolins thread before I do!

(She has been mentioned before there, on her own and as a member of her family band, SHEL, named for herself and her sisters: Sarah, Hannah, Eva and Liza. Videos abound ...)

**sunburst** · Sep-23-2011, 10:24pm

If I ever play drums in a band again, I want her in the band. Pat your foot through that tune as she plays it. "Perfect" timing all the way through.

**journeybear** · Sep-23-2011, 11:06pm

She is a pro. Thanks to this I have been checking out more music from her and SHEL, and they are a breath of fresh air. Thanks for turning us on to her/them, Ed! And she can keep the hat, no matter what the drummer said. (Might want to ease up on the late night anchovies, though ... )

**Magnus Geijer** · Sep-23-2011, 11:13pm

That was awesome!

**barrangatan** · Sep-23-2011, 11:17pm

Pretty incredible indeed -great playing and also great composition

**TonyEarth** · Sep-25-2011, 12:35pm

wow. that is pretty cool...

**Chinn** · Sep-25-2011, 3:27pm

That was a great vid! and then I clicked through to their version of the Battle of Evermore- great also!

**hhold** · Sep-25-2011, 3:51pm

cool and cute

**Mark Hudson** · Sep-25-2011, 5:56pm

Damn.... :-)

**mfeuerst** · Oct-31-2011, 9:43am

Ed,
Thanks for introducing us to SHEL. Great mandolin and in an unusual (for most us) context.

**Santiago** · Nov-04-2011, 9:17pm

I wasn't much on the story, but she can play!

**chasray** · Nov-04-2011, 11:39pm

I like her.

**Ed Goist** · Nov-06-2011, 5:42pm

I just discovered a recording of this tune (officially titled 'Born From Jets') with full instrumentation. It is apparently from Eva's solo album entitled "The Very Last Dream".
This is so awesome I almost can't believe it. There is a definite 'Eric Johnson vibe' happening here IMO.
This is killer stuff! It will be fun watching this young woman's career develop..."The Electric Sarah Jarosz".

**sunburst** · Nov-06-2011, 6:07pm

Maybe it's just me, but give me the "live" solo version in the (fake?) bedroom any day over the overdubbed, layered, reverb-smeared one from the album.

**Ed Goist** · Nov-10-2011, 7:11am

Eva Holbrook + Schwab Tele-mando + Peavey Classic 30 = Another fine e-mando video.

**JonK331** · Nov-15-2011, 12:22pm

Thanks for posting this! It's so refreshing to see young musicians (SHEL) playing this kind of music at this level. Awesome!

**Ed Goist** · Nov-15-2011, 10:41pm

Interesting interview with Eva Holbrook

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**journeybear** · Nov-16-2011, 9:35am

Ed - Rebecca Lovell called, wondering why she hasn't heard from you in a while.

From the interviewer's preface: I must admit that I have never given the mandolin much thought. For some reason it brings images of renaissance fairs and court jesters to my mind. This my friend is what is called ignorance. For you see the mandolin has had an impressive career as a musical instrument since its creation in the seventeenth century. The mandolin is a well respected instrument that has been picked up by some modern day heavy weights. Don Felder of the Eagles, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, Peter Buck of REM, and David Bowie just to name a few. Even Green Day's Billie-Joe Armstrong played it on their album Warning. And just like them Eva Holbrook from the band SHEL picked up a mandolin offered to her by her father in a Fort Collins music store.

Heady company.* Now, I knew about John Paul Jones and Peter Buck, but the others ... Pretty sure Jerry's second instrument was banjo (or pedal steel), and he got some buddy of his to play mandolin here and there - I forget his name, he wasn't half bad. As to the others - this is the first I'm hearing about this. Can anyone corroborate? Please do, before I spend the next half hour trying to verify. Thanks!

And no kidding - thanks, Ed, for spreading the word about Eva. She's a good 'un!

* Even more impressive is the role Eva's father had in the careers of so many accomplished musicians. And that music store in Fort Collins has quite the customer list. Who knew?

PS: OK, The Eagles and Green Day have indeed made it onto the Mandolin Rock Songs list, but not Bowie. Back to the search ...

PPS: Not seeing any evidence of Bowie playing mandolin, but I have found one cut which features the instrument: "Fantastic Voyage" from The Lodger (1979) - mandolin by Simon House, Adrian Belew, and Tony Visconti

I see that the chorus of "Wild Is The Wind" from Stationtostation begins with: You touch me, I hear the sound of mandolins but this is a lyric snippet, and a cover at that.

**Rodney Riley** · Nov-16-2011, 10:38am

Originally Posted by Ed Goist

[URL="http://www.zaf622.com/html/interview_20.html"]Interesting interview with Eva Holbrook

Thanks Ed, very interesting. We now have 8 tickets to see SHEL here in Illinois. The place they are performing at is limited to only 120 tickets being sold. Our two granddaughter are really excited. Oh, and their Papa too.

**mfeuerst** · Nov-22-2011, 9:54am

I saw SHEL do a set just a few days ago, including a new song that was terrific. Overall it was about what I expected although in this particular setting we got more total ensemble sound than mandolin in specific. All the ladies are talented and engaging and certainly on the rise. Actually I was most impressed with Liza's percussion.

**mrmando** · Nov-22-2011, 10:19am

Originally Posted by journeybear

Even more impressive is the role Eva's father had in the careers of so many accomplished musicians. And that music store in Fort Collins has quite the customer list. Who knew?

Yes, pity that the Fort Collins Art Zine hath not the wherewithal to employ either a fact checker or a copy editor.

**Rodney Riley** · Nov-22-2011, 10:36am

Originally Posted by mfeuerst

Actually I was most impressed with Liza's percussion.

Understand about the drumming... just snappin fingers and using a notebook.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9g0A...eature=related

And havin fun in the barnyard...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9ClqNEfOA

**journeybear** · Nov-22-2011, 11:06am

Originally Posted by mrmando

Yes, pity that the Fort Collins Art Zine hath not the wherewithal to employ either a fact checker or a copy editor.

Nor a writer a bit more up on grammar.

But if that had been the case, there would be less amusement for those of us who notice these things. In that respect, a duller, drearier world 'twould thus be.