My mandolin duet with myself playing Brilliancy!

[Denny Gies]

Very creative. That was fun to watch.

[Paul Kotapish]

Very nice, very musical arrangement with lovely playing and sweet tone. Love the tempo, too.

[Perry Babasin]

Very nice!! The mandolin sounds very sweet!

[Marc Ferry]

Dylan,

This is some really cool and creative stuff! Keep it up. You play this song with a very distinct feel.

By the way, what mandolin is that? Looks pretty funky!

[Nashville]

Great job Dylan. I really enjoyed that. Also, thanks for the introduction to MG mandolins, that is new for me. It sounds great. I hope you post more tunes in future.

[Tom Morse]

Outstanding! Going viral, dude! Very nice "Conversations With Myself" (to quote the great jazz pianist Bill Evans).

[ralph johansson]

Exceptional sound in your mandolin, nice relaxed tempo.

This tune is very special to me as it was the one that made me take up the mandolin. I heard Howdy Forrester's recording on radio in 1960 and decided that I just had to have that LP. His version is a hair faster, snappier, than the Bush version, and the groove is very much determined by Jimmy Riddle's piano.

In 1964 or 65 I transcribed the tune and several others from that LP, on guitar, slowing down my turntable to half speed. But
these tunes have some very frequent and awkward string changes, so I decided they would be much easier to play on an instrument tuned in fifths. So in took up the mandolin in 66 or 67. I also had a short period of trying to play the fivestring banjo, so I had the first two parts worked out in some kind of melodic style. In 68 I joined a fourpiece BG band and introduced this song to the banjo player who was very much into that style. It was one of our more successful arrangements and we recorded it in the spring of 69 - but the product wasn't marketed at all and probably sold very poorly.

Bush's version differs a bit from that of Forrester, especially in the second part- by design, I suppose, since Bush learned quite a few things directly from Forrester (I've read that his father was friends with Roy Acuff). I have devised and recorded a guitar accompaniment in A, uncapoed, to imitate the feel of the piano. Capoing at the 2nd fret would produce more of a BG groove.

[lukmanohnz]

Very lovely picking, and superb self-accompaniment. I'll bet that took a LOT of practice to execute so flawlessly!

[Steve Gray]

Very nice!

[drbluegrass]

Very nicely done. Lots of woodsheddin' for that one I bet.


Tom

[dylanferris]

Thanks everybody! I appreciate all the kind words!

[surfercook]

Amazing video and performance! I can't imagine memorizing all that! I'll never get that good! But I do enjoy playing just the same.