Yes, I know, this song has been done, redone, used, and abused, and I should have left it alone. However, I decided maybe there was a little room left in the world for a solo mandolin instrumental....
Yes, I know, this song has been done, redone, used, and abused, and I should have left it alone. However, I decided maybe there was a little room left in the world for a solo mandolin instrumental....
Let's have some of Norman in his prime!
https://youtu.be/IA2CtM1B1Ak
I remixed the audio to clean up the sound and get closer to the mandolin voice I intended. Now posted at my YouTube channel. I am pleased at being able to present good versions of tunes I wrote for a...
Here's some Blues. Thanks for the Listen!:mandosmiley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn0kMv95FTg
I am SO happy to see that Paul Hostetter's website is again available; when I last looked 5 or 6 months ago, it was not. It's a wonderful resource, and he was a frequent poster here.
IIRC, his...
Haven't had an after breakfast tune for a wee while. This is Jimmy Shand's classic tune The Bluebell Polka. It was very popular when I was young, indeed it was a great favourite of my mother who...
Thanks Sue and Chuck! Here's my 1st attempt to cover anything by John Reischman. I mean, the man is a monster. I'd give most anything to be that cool behind the controls... Thanks for the Listen!!...
This is a lovely Scottish slow air composed by Charles Grant, a 19th Century fiddler and composer from Morayshire.
My version is on octave, mandolin and guitar and based on an arrangement got from...
https://youtu.be/O2HOE1UXEq0?si=mZthshyqD58hjOME
This is a James Scott Skinner fiddle composition I have adapted to octave mandolin and guitar. The Queen in the title is Victoria, not the recently departed Elizabeth, who passed away very near to...
My apologies if I ramble somewhat, but my experience comes from 50+ years experience of playing guitars and some extremely high end ones.
I was fortunate in having a very successful career which...
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Enjoy!
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqDEMQZw314
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Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nya2-HSWvJA
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FYI lots of knowledgable women on this forum as well.
This is Robert Burns's famous song Ae Fond Kiss, which I was working on for Burns Night recently.
It is played on my Stefan Sobell octave mandolin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRrR8j58ZA
I just wanted to give a shout out for DataNick who has this on Bluegrasstoday:
https://bluegrasstoday.com/california-report-san-diego-mandolinist-b-k-nick-nicholson/
I miss his quality posts...
May you have a warm, happy and lovely birthday.
One of his wonderful songs, sadly never on an album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv5UPOgGeEQ
Who even knew ?
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Happy New Year! Here's a fun little polka for ya. It's famous for being in the movie "A Street Car Named Desire", but also known as " Put Your Little Foot Right Out". Thanks for the Listen!...
I felt the need to come back to this topic due to the fact that so many opinions voiced in this thread come from personal preferences/experience only.
I think it is necessary to see the bigger...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oq0Kr40f2M&lc=UgzpYuqNhXq5tsTOozF4AaABAg
I decided to kick the new year off by recording a tune request that came my way from Mike Buesseler. This lovely little waltz was composed by the great Scottish accordionist Phil Cunningham. It...
Hi all,
I stumbled on this fantastic jazz recording from Italy; just wanted to share!
https://open.spotify.com/album/4KIqdidvUwRVfRvpkEaX37?si=9dY5Y02uQfue0Yh0SAimrQ
Hey everybody! Here's the video of the feb. 18th 1924 Don Brown Loar that I recently performed an extensive repair of rebuilding the head block and the neck dovetail and then resetting the neck.
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My lost 1922 Gibson F4 mandolin has been found, here is the story…
Last week I received an email correspondence, through my website, from a operations supervisor of a retailers distribution...