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Who's the third (bearded) mandolin player? Fiddler?

My brother sings and plays British Isles and Canadian traditional music. At one gig, a fellow kept requesting a well-known, overdone song that he'd dropped from his repertoire, a fairly complex...

Welcome to the Cafe. Judging my experience that won't be the last E string you snap!

In my experience, they ask you for bluegrass, which is great and provides many options -- if you play bluegrass. However, for those of us who don't...

Welcome to the Cafe, Eric. Please tell us a bit about your instrument and musical interests. If you have any questions, there a lots of helpful people here, generous with their knowledge.

Unlike the writers of posts 2 & 3, I am a doctor (of Folklore). It looks to me like you're a victim of the evil eye. Have you tried dropping silver in water then bathing your thumb in silver water?...

Thanks. I was thinking that if someone released commercial recordings of those jams, I wouldn't want to be the person assigned to getting permissions from the musicians and their record companies....

But "My Way" was Paul Anka's song!

Stan was an old acquaintance of mine. We often discussed music and records. I bought the Andy Irvine and Paul Brady self-titled album when new because of Stan's...

Perhaps, that's it. After all, I do live on Paul Anka Drive, named after another Canadian (Ottawa born and raised) songwriter. Do you think I need professional help? Actually, if the options were...

I'm totally confused. When Bill corrected me on the title, I got "Ohio" in my mind. I think isolation is playing with my mind. Next time I'll just post a tune and not name the thread. ;)

Welcome aboard, Willow. The Cafe is a very supportive community (but not without the occasional tiff). As the others have said, please tell us about your mandolin interests.

I always recommend Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Times of Yank Rachell by Richard Congress.



Allan, you could try this classic Newfoundland folksong, "Now, I'm 64", though it's rather sad. I...

If you search YouTube using " 'Wind That Shakes The Barley' fiddle tune" as your search term, you'll find many renditions of the tune, including this:
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Thanks, guys. I'm not doing so well here. I got the song title and band name wrong. But at least I said it was a jam! And those instruments were a mandolin and an electric mandolin, weren't they? I...

Of course, I don't know what I was thinking. Some overlap in the personnel on the original, and similar themes, I guess. :redface:

Just ran across this on YouTube -- I'm not sure if it's been posted here before. The Del McCoury band is jamming with friends. Sierra Hull is doing a sensitive interpretation on mandolin. Someone at...

You put the coasters under the strings in the area where you pick the strings, then brush the strings as you practice tremolo. The point is to learn to play the strings rapidly, without digging in...

Oops, I missed the two beer coasters for a Cartriona Lichtenberg exercise in tremeloe. And we wonder why Customs agents get confused when we bring our instruments through!

A sandstone humidifier;
A small bag containing:
a tuner,
a capo,
two Black Mountain thumb picks (my preferred pick -- arthritis in my right hand makes thumb-picking more comfortable, i.e., using...

Thanks to David Benedict for this series and for his consistency in posting it. I never miss it.

Thanks for the tunes, John R. and John K. I play "Farewell to Aberdeen" on fiddle, but in Cape Breton, we call it "The Boy's Lament for His Dragon." Don't ask me why.
Here's the Cape Bretoner,...

Happy New Year all! :mandosmiley:

This type of folk song has many lyrics, so you can choose what you like and even make up your own. You can also find lyrics under the title "Angelina Baker" (apparently she was a baker with the...

Thanks for that, and Merry Christmas to all.

Here's a Bill Christmas song. Apparently, his son gave him a red bathrobe backstage at Grand Ol' Opry. He walked onstage, wearing it, and saying "Ho,...

Does anyone have a transcription in the key of B?