It's a great tune. I'm more familiar with Leadbelly's version, which uses more minor chords and slightly unusual chord progressions. It's dark, and maybe a tad creepy. I really like Doc and Dawg's...
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It's a great tune. I'm more familiar with Leadbelly's version, which uses more minor chords and slightly unusual chord progressions. It's dark, and maybe a tad creepy. I really like Doc and Dawg's...
Holy COW!!
Good stuff. "Almost thou persuades me to buy a theorbo." (Acts 26:28, paraphrased) Sting does a good job. His axe looks different--shorter--than the theorbo I saw on the vid on FB. Still nice.
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A letter or email, maybe. I had a similar experience with a bike shop and how they badmouthed my road bike. Not rude, just telling me every time I brought my bike there what a POS it was. I just...
Congratulations!
I'm curious:
What are some favorite Christmas and winter/holiday pieces, tunes and songs to play on mandolin and mando family instruments?
I'm asking to get ideas for church, work and my own...
What about mando-banjo players? Huh, huh? Loophole, perhaps? (I'm asking because someday I will buy one, and....)
I have been payed a tad for a few gigs I've done, but the groupies so far have eluded me. Oh well.
I really like the column. And I totally agree. I practice my music so I can have more fun with...
A zydeco/Cajun band out of Galena, Illinois, now defunct: "We're Late and Smell Like Beer".
Welp:
-Having a variety of mando-family instruments (m'cello, bouzouki, tenor banjo, mando, electric slide mando) and having difficulty deciding which one to play.
-Deciding which instrument to...
Stefan Grossman. One of Rev. Gary Davis's star students, playing and teaching various styles of fingerstyle guitar for MANY years. Pretty much anything you can find of him.
You basically turn...
I have an electric mandolin (put together myself, actually--pretty cool) and I currently have it in an open A tuning: (first to fourth) E-A-C#-A. I mess around with slide on it. I play some blues,...
Very beautiful!
Hard to say. It depends on what your goals are.
(Just my opinions here, mind you.)
Virtuosity, as in blistering-fast bluegrass leads? Knowledge of and technical proficiency in a yooge catalogue...
"There's Power In the Blood". Just learn the hymn and speed it up.
"Daddy's Hands"--not strictly a Gospel song, but I heard a group do it in an outdoor worship service at a folk fest, and it worked...
I'm pretty darned self-critical, but there were a couple of moments at the Willow Folk Festival (near Stockton, IL, and I had to miss it this year--SOB!!): I walked up to a small group of old-time...
I've only been exposed to this tune as a uke song a la George Harrison. Tasty arrangement! I know it on uke in a different key; this will be fun!
That's very pretty, Andy!
All three great tunes. I was tempted to go with "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" because I know it to sing and accompany myself on ukulele (emulating George Harrison). But I dig the bluesy...
Masterful! Love me some Avi!
Blues, Celtic (a few tunes), old-time, classical--Handel mostly, contemporary praise and worship and traditional hymns.
I don't remember really well. I started (on strings--I got piano lessons as a kid, and played trombone through college) on guitar, and took a few lessons on fingerstyle. Something interested me in...
Yup. I would amend that a bit, though, to add Howard Armstrong. Yank Rachell and Rich Del Grosso--Yes!
I live in Galesburg. Anywhere close?
Born: Superior, Wisconsin
Lived briefly as a baby: Duluth, Minnesota
As a toddler: Spooner, Wisconsin
Ages 4-7: Monona Grove, Wisconsin (suburb of Madison--coolest city in the US!)
7-11: ...