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For the country blues like you have described, you can't go wrong with a Kalamazoo! I think the mandolins have a wonderful blues sound and are generally easy to find, to play and to set-up. I have...

Good reply, clever.

Luckily my family and my wife just think I am a little crazy... and they are right.

Style 1 guitar seems like a reasonable place to start...

One of my blues mandolin heroes is Herb Quinn from New Orleans, who played and recorded with Babe Stovall. This tune is a classic with some wonderful mandolin and guitar interplay on the breaks:
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I gotta agree with all that... my 1933 A 50 is amazing sounding (and has a great sunburst), and has more tone and volume than my 1924 Snakehead. Plus my Kalamazoo's from the 30's also have a...

I had the Dobro version before I traded it to a friend who really wanted it. It was a good sounding mandolin that was a fun addition with other instruments.

A friend recently bought a...