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    I think my favorite player of Chicago blues style mandolin these days has to be Gerry Hundt. Check him out on youtube and look him up on MySpace. He's got a great feeling for the music and is a really good singer too! He has a mini Johnny Young lesson on the youtube:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHNM7...eature=related
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    thats true, as long as you burn them onto a CD then you can play them anywhere but as far as listening to them digitally it can only be on one computer. #also amazon mp3 has some good deal.. for today Hank Williams - 20 Greatest Hits is only $1.99 -- No i dont work for amazon! #

    Anyway back to the blues. Was just checkin out that youtube from Gerry Hundt. #good stuff!



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    Ry Cooder is a must hear....you can see him play Brownsville Girl on YouTube.

    Look for the following cuts on his albums. He really nails the old time sound:

    Hey Porter
    Brownsville Girl
    Axe Sweet Mama
    Crow Black Chicken
    Billy the Kid

    Also here's an album that has some very tasty "modern" blues mando playing:

    Deceiving Blues

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    The only mandolin blues album that i do own is Mandolin Blues featuring Yank, Johnny Young, Carl Martin, and Willie Hatcher.
    That is a FANTASTIC album and in some ways has everything you need to know about blues mando on there.

    Steve James DVD is helpful but I think he best way to learn blues mando is to try and mimic the tone and the phrasing. The licks are not all that difficult compared to other generes but getting it to sound like those old guys is where it's at IMHO.

    Steve James has a great blues tremolo BTW.

    Oh yeah that guy Bill Monroe plays some good blues too




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    Quote Originally Posted by (JFly @ Aug. 03 2008, 09:55)
    mp3s at Amazon.com are usually cheaper and you can play them anywhere unlike iTunes where you can only play it on a certian computer and ipod.
    For the most part this is a myth.

    Most of the music on iTunes is now "iTunes Plus". Which means it's ripped at a higher bit rate (256kbps) and it's DRM-free. You can play these files on whatever you want, burn a CD of them, move them to other computers, whatever.
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    cool, i did not know that. i havent messed with itunes in a few months. good to hear they are doing that!

    Perry - Thanks for the resources!! I will checkin em out!
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    Amazon does have some more obscure music though. I picked up a couple of CDs with Yank, Young and Armstrong on them. Great old recordings.

    I think Amazon does offer a nice alternative to iTunes. Although iTunes makes it pretty easy to buy stuff. Another great resource is Acoustic Disc's download service. They offer darn near their entire catalog for download.
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    Back in the 80's I took a week long workshop with Howard Armstrong and Rich Delgrosso at the Agusta Heritage workshops in WV. It was a blast. One thing I remember Howard telling me about the sound of the mando's on old recordings is that sometimes the G and D strings were set up as octaves, like a twelve string guitar. I just listened to some recordings by Charlie McCoy ( brother of Joe McCoy ) and it sounds like he used it on some of his tunes.

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    A bunch of stuff with four strings

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    This octave set up makes SUCH a huge difference, especially when trying to figure out songs from recordings. I personally LOVE the sound of octave strings and just became fortunate enoguh to play a resonator mandolin strung up like so, it is THE SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I have been working out easy winner in C, man, that tune is straightforward, but tough. Could take a lifetime, or two months, to master.
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    I found a neat little Monroe tune while I was digging through my father-in-law's music. It's called Santa Claus and sounds nothing like Christmas....LOL. If you play it with a little shuffle or swing it's got a real bluesy sound to it. It not too hard either.
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    Santa Claus is a variant of I don't love nobody.
    Brad Keith played a nice melodic lead.
    Monroe's break is neat too.

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    Ok this is weird. I did a search "I don't love nobody" and the first YouTube Link that shows up is a clip of two guys playing the tune in front of a Christmas tree.

    Anyhow, it's some nice fiddle playing.
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    Chicken oh Chicken also sounds like a sister-in-law of the same melody.

    I did it, I traded in a junk Martin guitar yesterday for this mandolin and a new A and E string.

    Octave Strings in Action

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    hey Mike , sounds good to me.

    and you even have a lightshow in the background WOW !
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    mandolirius suggested the Original Sloth Band. If you can't find any of their records, Ken Whitely, the mandolin player, is still around and playing great blues mandolin. I went to Toronto to see Pete Seeger, Tao and Guy Davis last month. Guy asked Ken out of the audience to play a few tunes and he was great. Pete also asked Sylvia Tyson to come up and sing a song with him. Gord Lightfoot was also in attendance.
    Ken is a multi-instrumentalist, so I'm not sure which record to recommend.
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    Did anyone mention Billy Flynn, Chicago Blues Mandolin? It's on iTunes.

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    Good stuff but not acoustic.
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    Jim

    Thank you so very much for your blues mando contributions on YouTube

    I think maybe you gave too much free info already >>> but am grateful for it

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