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That dude is handsome!

His 'Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band' album is also a fine bluegrass album but throws in enough twists and difference to sound apart from many other bluegrass type recordings. I think he offers a certain...

I mucked around with guitar before seriously getting into the mandolin. When I've gone back to guitar I've found that my right hand technique with a pick is so much better and my approach to working...

I had a zero fret installed a la zero glide but mine wasn't a Goldtone product but a local luthier made it for me. I thought the whole thing sounded brighter when i first got it done and I suppose my...

The players who've most influenced me are Sam Bush, Mike Marshall, David Grisman and Andy Statman. Mike's DVDs have helped with developing good technique and the ability to then transfer this to...

I just got an email from No Depression with this link:

http://www.nodepression.com/m/blogpost?id=2342817%3ABlogPost%3A848385

Anyone know anymore about this? There's bound to be some top-class...

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I like this version! Captures the mood perfectly.

Wouldn't we all love to see a Mike Compton quadruple DVD set teaching Bill Monroe style mandolin and how his own playing evolved from that!?

To me there's only two kinds of music - that that I like and that that I don't. I like some of the artists mentioned and some I don't. There has been mention of over-produced, commercial 'country...

Bluegrass is also a music that distills a lot of musical traditions/genres. You can hear country/old time/folk song (often from Scotland, England, Ireland)/gospel/swing/blues/rock n roll/ etc.
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As someone who bought a mandolin in the last year - not through the classifieds - I'm not ashamed to say that looks were important. Quite a lot of us have F style mandolins and are happy to pay a...

Jody Stecher on
Jody Stecher on
1. Perfect Strangers self titled CD
2. Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band

Tim O'Brien on
3. Hot Rize - 1979 debut

1. Try not to noodle apart from to warm up.
2. Play everything as properly as you can verbatim as from the source you learn it from.
3. Try not to play fast until you can play well.
4. Find a...