I'll liken it to Schwinn bicycles. When I was a kid, the company came out with 2 new 10-speed models: the Varsity and the Continental. The latter was...
I agree with the poster who preferred the solidbody jazz guitarists. And indeed, the less 'pure' they are, the more I appreciate them. Wes was great....
Sonny Clark is a fave for his trio recordings. Mention was made of Grant Green; this is great Grant Green - The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark.
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No offence taken. I thought about it very hard and qualified it. I only picked artists who deliberately praised monroe about the influence he had on...
I was watching a cooking show the other day, they pulled out a mandolin and used it in a recipe. Seems the name of the thing came from the 'strumming...
I know the discussion is centered on horn players, + Milt Jackson, but there are some guitarists who capture some of the feeling discussed above, the...
I was born in Louisiana, been over 30 years in Texas, began playing guitar as a teen. I play guitar with friends, at small gigs and at bluegrass jams. I play acoustic blues, country blues, gospel, country, rock and bluegrass music. I bought a mandolin in 2014, got serious about playing mandolin mid-2015 and my interests are mostly in bluegrass, folk and old-world fiddle tunes.
I also have an interest in documenting information about the group, The Bluegrass Alliance (all incarnations of the previous century rather than the re-alliance group of the 2000's).
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Near Abilene, Texas
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Music, lutherie, woodwork, wood finishing, web design
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Furniture repair, architectural millwork repair, web design
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