Mark, I'd really enjoy dropping in on you during one of my trips between Houston and Dallas. Love your taste in music and I know I'd enjoy picking a few with you sometime.
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Mark, I'd really enjoy dropping in on you during one of my trips between Houston and Dallas. Love your taste in music and I know I'd enjoy picking a few with you sometime.
Mike,
A number of years ago, I think I saw you play “Bright Days” at the Kansas State Fiddling Championship in Lawrence. If I’m not mistaken, you won the mandolin championship contest that year with this tune. I play this tune from time to time and think about how lovely your picking sounded that day in the park just south of downtown Lawrence.
Super nice pickin’ in the video, too! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Jim, you are correct I did win that year playing Bright Days. I've always liked how that tune uses the full spectrum of low end as well as the high end. Which makes it a perfect tune for hearing how a mandolin sounds.
Wow Mike, awesome picking and great sounding mandolin! Thanks for sharing with us. :mandosmiley:
Joe, that would be awesome. Palmer is just a quick stop off 45 about 15 minutes south of the metroplex. Send me a PM a day or two ahead of time and we'll make it happen, but I'll probably move out of Palmer to parts unknown around the end of September.
I learned another Blake tune. This time one of nancy‘s.
https://youtu.be/C7nm1fnbhZs
Nicely played! And what a pretty F-2!
Here's Dry Grass on the High Fields on a Ratliff Mandocello over Octave and Mandola chops.
tmsweeney: I really like your playing and arrangement of Dry Grass in the High Fields. Cool blend of instruments and creative video too. Great tune that I need to learn.
There are 3 version of "Dry Grass on the High Fields" that I know of
on "The Fields of November" probably the most well know version with the fiddle taking the melody
on "Old and New" this version has more of traditional Bluegrass sound with mandolin
and "Live at McCabes" - this is Norman on guitar with Nancy taking the melody on Cello and what I based my version on.
Here's an attempt at New Brick Road, I know this isn't quite right yet, but it's a start. Thanks to Mike Black for a transcription that helped a lot to get started on it.
It’s a pac-rim from the eighties, Ibanez
Don & I did a version of Georgia Home for the Song of the Week social group, and I thought to post it here to pop the thread back up. I'm playing on my Rigel first time around, then Don plays that Heiden of his (as he said, the Campanella is many mandolins ago!). Great tune, and just so fun to play. Hope you enjoy.
real nice pickin' there fellers
More guitar related, but then again Norman is known more for his 6 sting work than his 8 string creations, this is a new compilation of Norman covers by picker Bob Minner "From Sulphur Springs to Rising Fawn" with a stellar cast of supporting musicians, I haven't heard the record yet, though I intend to, but Bob is diehard Norman fan and emphasizes the traditional aspects of Norman's music.
Reviving this thread for "Third Street Gypsy Rag" on a 1925 Gibson H1 Mandola and a 1987 Flatiron Festival
I love everything about that arrangement, Tim! Really nice! (I hope your first name is Tim!)
Tim, that's a rocking version of Third St Gypsy Rag. Such a cool tune and you nailed it. Thanks for bringing back the Norman thread!
Thanks everyone for the kind words and encouragement, its one of my favorite tunes and is a joy to play, it has a kind of "Shostakovich" feel that is probably more of an Ostroushko thing.
As for the mandola I acquired that from a shop in Texas a few years ago, it was fairly beat but playable when I bought it, the tuners were shot and missing a peghead, so I had a friend of mine put some golden age tuners on. Last winter the buzzing got so bad I could not correct it with it humidity or bridge adjustments so I took it down to my luthier friend Tom Dobrovitch, who showed me that entire neck was coming loose, so I let him do his magic , there was separation on the back as well. We agreed not to mess with the top and leave it in its cosmetic state. Well it turned out great with IMHO super tone.
I only did one other video with it (post Dobrovich) and I don't take it out of the house much as it still feels a little delicate, but a charming little box to be sure.