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BlueNote
Oct-11-2008, 8:32pm
I love anything mandolin, but I spend more and more time enjoying old time. Any suggestions for recordings similar to In The Pines with Todd Phillps and crew? The songs are not complex but the musicianship, creativity and the groove is totally infectious!
SternART
Oct-11-2008, 8:50pm
That "is" a great CD. Do you know there was a Mel Bay book for In The Pines.......Matt Flinner did the transcriptions.........you can walk in the fingertips of Marshall & Reischmann. And what seems not complex is actually kinda hard to play & get right. Especially when it transcribes a Stuart Duncan or Darol Anger solo........even the mandolin parts are full of doublestops and syncopated timings. They do make it seem easy and you're right it does groove. I love that CD! Do you have Tim O'brien's Fiddler's Green & another is Cornbread Nation? I think they might match your criteria.
Find Bluegrass in the Backwoods by Ray Legere, that kind of mixes the old with the new. Actually, anything by Ray does that, with style.
Here's his website
http://users.eastlink.ca/~raylegere/
mandocrucian
Oct-12-2008, 9:23am
"In The Pines" is one of the six tunes used in my book/CD Hot Solos For Bluegrass Mandolin (http://www.elderly.com/books/items/46-15.htm). Inlcudes melody, harmony part, melody & harmony played in doublestops, plus five different solos of increasing complexity. The last two incorporate some SRV and Hendrix type lines. (Key of E).
http://www.elderly.com/images/tiny/books/255/46-15.jpg
Niles H
I'll vouch for Niles' book above. Multiple, different solos for the tunes, a real idea/lick expander, and carefully done with notation and tab.
sgarrity
Oct-12-2008, 12:07pm
That is a great recording. I play it all the time an attempt to pick some of the tunes. Mr Stern is correct; some of that "easy" stuff sure ain't easy! For similar recordings try Travellers by Baldassari, Reischman and Bullock; MandoLore by Andrew Collins and ???; and anything by John Reischman and the Jaybirds. Their music is very old-timey and laid back. I just can't get enough of it!