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Love this version. I learned this one from an old County LP by John Ashby, a fiddler from Northern Virginia. I know there are several other Ladies of the Lake, but I learned this one years ago and...

Always loved that tune. Kenny Baker recorded it in E, one of the few fiddle tunes in that key. This version sounds like the Morrison Brothers, who played it in D. Much better for drones. I think...

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Thanks for sharing this polka. I love the artwork and photographs that go along with your post. I play Italian mandolin, myself, and have often heard that polka at the famous Caffe Trieste in San...

Tiny Moore spoke highly of Leo Raley as one of the first mandolin players to put an electric pick up on his instrument. He played with the original Texas Wanderers, Cliff Bruner's band in the 1930s...

The original Kenny Hall and the Sweets Mill String Band was on two LPs, recorded in 1974 or so. It was reissued on one CD by Bay Records in Berkeley, CA in 2001. It's probably still in print. He...

I am the director of the Gravenstein Mandolin Ensemble, in Sebastopol, California. We do an eclectic mix of music, including classical, Choro, Italian, Scott Joplin, and more. We do the Jeff...

Totally awesome performance. I've been working on that piece for months. I have the sheet music, but I don't recall where it came from (Mike Marshall's book? maybe) Nazareth was a pianist, and a...

Did someone mention Kenny Hall? He's still around (probably pushing 90), but most of his recorded music was done post 1970 (although he was definitely around pre-World War II) . He certainly has a...

Nice to see all the comments about Clyde Curley's mandolin playing and the Portland Collection. I did a radio interview with Clyde and co-author Susan Songer for my "Fiddlin Zone" program, on...

I've been lurking here too long, so it's time to join this discussion. I play in a group in the Bay Area called The Hot Frittatas, and "Speranze Perdute" is on our first CD, "Caffe Liscio," released...

There is an Arhoolie CD featuring the music of Tex Mex fiddler Jose Moreno, called "El Fidelero del Valle" (Chris Strachwitz coined the Spanglish word Fidelero for fiddler). The CD contains 18 great...

Great photo of Matteo and Gino, taken near Aquatic Park in San Francisco many years ago. Matteo appears to be holding a Gibson A-50 (I have the same mandolin, so I'm pretty sure that's what it is). I...

Guess I'm a little late getting into this discussion, but here I am. My group, The Hot Frittatas, has been playing Italian music for almost 7 years now in northern California (thanks Jim Garber for...

One of the great musette groups here in the Bay Area is the Baquette Quartette, led by Parisian accordioniste, Odile Lavault. They have three or four CDs out, featuring the music from the 1880s...

"That tune went over like pork chops at a Bar Mitzvah."
"Why lather up if you aint gonna shave?"
"I wrote this when I was feeling kind of down in the dumps; that's where I live, you know."

Gus...