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  1. Give as Gift option new to Mandolin Cafe On Demand

    From Mandolin Cafe On Demand, our business partners at Leaping Brain have added a new feature in time for the holidays for those of you that would like to gift a lesson of the highest quality to a friend.

    The option to Give as Gift button has been added to the left side of each lesson, allowing you to give the gift of a mandolin (or guitar or other instrument) lesson to your musician friends. Have a mandolin playing friend that needs to play just like Sam Bush, Mike Marshall or Chris ...
  2. Eat out and tip big - or... shop for new music goodies

    I'm a fan of Anthony Bourdain, the booze swilling, retired former not-so-great chef who just happens to be one of the great food writers of our time. And, he made a marvelous travel/food show for a number of years. His award winning show No Reservations is ending today. It'll be missed. He recently penned an article for CNN about the restaurant industry that we can apply to our friends in the music industry on the East coast:

    Eat out and tip big to save NYC restaurants after Sandy. ...

    Updated Nov-06-2012 at 10:54am by Scott Tichenor

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  3. What's right about The Time Jumpers is what's right about music

    Beg our pardon but we're here to tell you a story about our current favorite band on the planet and there isn't a mandolin in sight.

    Meet The Time Jumpers, the ultimate example of what is really right with music. Counting 11 strong in the group, as the band members will tell you, it's really a country music big band. The members are made up of some of the hottest in-demand musicians in Nashville: first call studio musicians, Opry back-up pros, road tour cats in the bands of legends ...

    Updated Oct-02-2012 at 1:26pm by Scott Tichenor

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  4. Don't Live A Bug's Life

    Don't let the internet turn you into a mosquito, drawn by the uncontrollable lure of a bug zapper, ie., too much time online. I'm in the midst of preparing a summer reading list for our teenage daughter and one for myself as well. Goals? Read more, be online less. Play more music, spend more time with friends and family.

    Don't get me wrong. No one loves the internet more than I do, but there's a healthy limit, and I'm troubled by those that can't resist the lure and spend too much ...
  5. Satan Is Real

    With an introduction by Kris Kristofferson, this book easily ranks as one of my favorite music biographies of all-time, and I've read many. Satan Is Real, The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers was written by Charlie Louvin with Benjamin Whitmer (Igniter press, published January 3, 2012 a year after Charlie's passing).

    inline imageHere's a prescription for sanity: Friday night I turned off the computer and cracked open ...

    Updated Sep-27-2020 at 3:01pm by Mandolin Cafe

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  6. What Does The Declining Price of Recorded Music Mean?

    That ever growing stack of CDs in your house, they turn into little furry woodland creatures at night when you sleep. It's true, because when you awake they've bred and multiplied, only with different names, different genres and different musical instruments. More than enough clutter to justify one of the most famous lines from the movie The Graduate: "plastics."

    So we were happy to read that for the first time in history, sales of digital music downloads finally passed that of hard copy--CD, ...
  7. Mandolin Cafe 2011 In Review

    As we did in last year and in 2009, we pause and recap the memorable highlights in the mandolin world as we saw them.

    inline imageJanuary, 2011 - Classical mandolin and the Grammy Awards met for the first time when Avi Avital was part of the nomination for Avner Dorman's Mandolin Concerto with Avi as soloist with Metropolis Ensemble.

    Speaking of classical, one of the finest recordings of the year came from the UK's ...
  8. Mandolin Cafe Black Friday Gear Recommendations

    On Monday we covered some 2011 new music in advance of Black Friday and today we have some gear recommendations to share. Not necessarily restricted to what's new to 2011, we're happy to recommendation products that are tried and tested and are widely in use. If you've been paying attention and are a certified AAS sufferer (Accessory Acquisition Syndrom) you may have some of these items.

    Got your own suggestions? We'd like to hear them, and please share a link with us.
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  9. Mandolin Cafe Black Friday Music Recommendations

    Black Friday, the big shopping day after Thanksgiving is soon upon us and we thought we'd recap some of the terrific new music that arrived in 2011.

    HINT: leave this post up on your PC, highlight what you like and exclaim loudly: "wow, would I like this for Christmas!" Then disappear for awhile and hope the item appears under the tree on Christmas instead of that annual package of white tube socks.

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  10. How to: making personal iTunes collections from free music

    Like to create a great collection of MP3 music that you could take with you on your iPhone, iPod or other iTunes friendly device?

    There's a lot of great music offered for free on the web in MP3 form, but the problem is most of it isn't organized or you have to navigate to a particular web site to listen to it. Examples: the MP3 of the Day from Acoustic Oasis, random MP3s posted by the Song-A-Week Social Group, and our own MP3 page.

    The purpose of this tutorial is to ...

    Updated Dec-22-2011 at 11:09am by Scott Tichenor

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