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In the spirit of helping each other get through this period of increasing downtime and decreasing income, the pdf's at Mando Scales are now free.

(And, if you get a few down enough that you want...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=762hSQJSJWA

I tried fading this tune out at the end but that didn’t work too well.
That’s why I don’t work for Ken Burns.....
https://youtu.be/MF7Z9iU3V2w

I don't think this resource has been mentioned here in awhile (could be wrong, but all I found was a post from 2011 when Jim Nikora announced the addition of Mike O'Connell's recordings to the...

this is an older video of mine doing the Lint Head Stomp
learned it from the Steve Parker Ragtime Book

Lint Head Stomp

Long live Chuck Berry

sGKzlgWr_VA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGKzlgWr_VA

Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (1940-2012), whose name came up in Blues, Stomps, & Rags #23, is best know for being drummer and singer with with The Band, but, like all members of the group, he was a...

Hi all,


I've recently completed a recording entitled “Pete Plays Wes”. 9 original Wes Montgomery tunes played on mandolin by me with assistance from friends. You can download it no charge at:
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Correction: The "Edit" button isn't appearing. The CD in paragraph 2 above is Early Mandolin Classics, Volume 1 (I don't think there was a Volume 2) and not Mandolin Classics. By the way, it's a good...

Hey!

Here is little trip I made to old iron mines in Helsinki. The music is played with Bulgarian tamboura that is relative for mandolin and other plucked instruments like guitar.

There is some...

Hey Ranald, I posed your question to my friend, Marshall Wyatt, owner of Old Hat Records.... http://www.oldhatrecords.com/ .

Marshall is an expert on early string band jazz and jugband music....

Before I get to this week's blues-mandolin player, can anyone recommend any blues-mandolin women? I'm neither avoiding nor taking women for granted, but, with the possible exception of an "unknown...

Ken Whiteley (b. 1951) is a musician, songwriter, and producer, playing in a variety of styles on guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, ukulele, jugs, piano, accordion, harmonica, kazoo, and percussion...

Rich DelGrosso describes Eddie Dimmitt as an "unknown" mandolin player, who appeared on a few recordings, but otherwise disappeared from musical history. Dimmitt recorded and played with the Tommy...

Last week, on "Blues, Stomps, & Rags #2," I posted a video of James "Yank" Rachel playing electric mandolin in 1989, toward the end of his life. Here he is, as a young man in 1929, playing "Divin'...

I have had this problem in the past with my imbedding not showing up for some folks.

Try this.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2heVEC2djCE

The tune is " oh red".

Thanks to everyone who responded to "Blues, Stomps, and Rags #1".

Perhaps the most influential blues mandolinist was James "Yank" Rachell, an early blues singer and player. He began playing...

I notice that not much is happening by way of blues here, so I decided to start posting a blues or blues-related tune a week (allowing for "the best-laid plans of mice and men...") for blues...

https://youtu.be/eU9-SZAyGs0

Ran across this and don’t recall ever seeing it here. Short piece on an Italian bowlback maker. English subtitles.

Some very cool stuff on this YouTube account,...