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Thanks!

If I had to pick one to sound closest to, it'd be the first album from J.D. Crowe & the New South. None of them sound exactly like what I want, but they all have part of what I'm looking...

Good point, Bruce. #BTW, thanks for weighing in on this. #I still listen to your Manzanita Band recording.

For vocal handling:

Jim Lauderdale's recent bluegrass offering (similar range to the...

Hi, all,

I'm about to dive into a bluegrass recording project. I'll be doing most of the tracking at home on a 16-bit/44.1KHz hard disk DAW, then emailing a mix to a friend in another state for...

That pickguard looks cool!

I'll get the emails out to Spruce and misterc. Warning, the pictures are large.

Good point, Spruce. I got pics from the guy, and will email to any interested parties. Post here or use the mando cafe messenger. Thanks, all.

I talked to my buddy about the tree some more. He said there's about 8 feet of trunk before the lowest branches. The tree was present before the houses were built, but it is unknown how densely...

I live in Pottstown. My friend with the tree lives about an hour from Pottstown.

Hi, all,

# # For those of you in the Pennsylvanian part of the world, a friend has a white spruce tree he'd like to part with. #The tree is about 80 feet tall, 2-3 feet in diameter, and was...

Thanks, Fred, that was a fun jam! I wish I'd gotten out to Easton more often while I was living up in Allentown. Hopefully I can make it up there again some time when visiting the in-laws. I'm glad...

Thanks. I'd heard about the Washington House jam before, but haven't made it out there yet. That Ed Pollak page is great! There are at least 3 jams in pretty close proximity. If you want to get...

Hi,

I've just moved to the Pottstown, Pennsylvania area & I'm dying to find some people to play music with.
I'm into bluegrass, western swing, folk, and classic country music. I'm also into a...

I should be around Nov. 14th. I have now moved to the area and am jonesing for a jam. Though I'm mostly flatpicking guitar now, I'll bring the mando along.

Excellent! I'm moving to this area soon (a couple of weeks).

My recommendation, which will probably be unpopular, is this:

Buy 2 or 3 AT-2020's, a couple of SM-57's, a Behringer 12 track mixing board, a good external soundcard (Edirol's audiophile USB card...

28. Been playing mando for...um. Hm. 5 years? That's odd.

The Kay I started on (a loaner from my uncle) had horrible, atrocious, ungodly oodles of bad tone, and was very very difficult to fret past the first position. But it got me in the game...

A '36 bone? Pre-war Grenada? Hammond Organ?

Up late in the night
obsessing over details
cutting the first tracks

Microphone angles,
ground loops, right hand mechanics;
getting in too deep...

Wow. Who's Jim Thompson?

New frets, neck set, bridge!
New pins, bone saddle, pickup...
How's it gonna sound?

Mandos prepare for
a lonely spell; welcome home,
my D-28!

IV kit beckons,
"Build me!" Johnson A whimpers
with Ebay nightmares

I liked "Take it Home". Some very good cuts. I haven't listened to a lot of their albums though. The others may be better. (That would be great.)

When I saw the album title, I wondered if it was a reference to their faith. Thile seems to write about trials of faith that he endures.

I'm of two minds about the pop sensibility that Nickel...