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New information has been added to this article, including a link to it within Spotify. Enjoying listening to it as I write.

We posted a lengthy list of Norman's instruments in 2016 when he liquidated a great deal of his collection and had Carter Vintage Guitars handle the sales. This was likely among those IIRC. There...

Thought I'd get in on some of this action of posting pictures of my stats from various music services on the web, social media, etc. I mean, is it possible to get enough of this? I don't THINK so....

Bill Graham did a nice feature article on Dean in 2012. Got to meet the man myself and hear the band he was playing in at the time. He was still a brilliant player and this was just a few years...

It's that time again. We know who's been naughty and nice.

Corrected.

For posterity, the sounds files have been moved here.

You can view the page at https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/content/609-New-Music-from-Nick-Dumas-Story-of-a-Beautiful-Life
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The word on this album is that there is no guitar lead. Mike said Norman opted to just play rhythm on the recording and that was his choice.

Attached. Quite the nice piece of writing, impressive.

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You can view the page at https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/content/608-New-Music-from-Mike-Compton-Norman-Blake-Gallop-To-Georgia
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Most of their discounts are eBooks or printed versions. However, this appears to be only for digital (eBook) versions. You can blame me for that mix-up! I'd say hold tight, typically these discounts...

True, The Mandolin Store has a lot of them, actually. They're easily the volume Eastman dealer for all things mandolin related. But finding these used, not often available.

Noting today's anniversary of the publication of this great book.

Close your eyes, grasshopper. Now open them. Rejoice.

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Dennis tells us:

Winner of the Eastman Mandolin giveaway at The Mandolin Store was Lincoln Wilmouth from Montana.

This is actually ongoing for a few weeks, not just this Friday.

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/content/607-Peghead-Nation-Mandolin-Cafe-Promo-2019-Holidays

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Nothing beats a proper wailing and gnashing of the teeth by the Bluegrass crowd. I love Bluegrass myself, and am part of a reasonably straight ahead bluegrass band, although what we play didn't sound...

All of the streaming tracks of Dawg's breaks from the album have been archived here for future listening: https://www.mandolincafe.com/archives/whatmandolinsdawgplays.html

One of our favorite interviews from the last few years, published this date two years ago.

... sigh. Appears I've been usurped. Maybe it's time we resurrect those Photoshop threads from long ago.

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4088&d=0

Drum roll...

We have a winner. The average score was between 5 or 6 correct guesses out of 14 songs. A number of folks got 7, three got 8. I was really impressed when someone got 9, but Kurt...

This is turning into an interesting sorting problem but I've only worked about 5 minutes on it. I can say with certainly that not a single person got them all correct. In fact, only 4 out of the...

The guessing is over. Here are the answers straight from the Dawg's mouth:

Spud Boy - Fern
Old Timey Art - Fern
Little Bitty Town - Gilchrist
Dawg On A String - Gilchrist
Big Blue - Fern
No...