Happy Birthday Dawg!
I remember to this day when I first heard Dawg Music. It was in the early summer of 1979, and I had just turned 22 years old and finished college. I was moving from the Missouri Ozarks, where I grew up, to Seattle. On the multi-week road trip there, a high school friend of mine turned me on to "Hot Dawg" and my life (musical and otherwise) was never the same after that introduction. I was a fan of bluegrass and roots rock (the Dead, Allman Bros, etc) but at that point I'd never really gotten into jazz or Latin music; certainly not swing or bossa. Thanks to that introduction I got to know the music of Django, Stephane, Jobim, Mike Marshall, Darol Anger, Mark O'Connor, Jethro Burns and eventually Jacob do Bandolim, Chris Thile, Don Stiernberg, many of the jazz greats and so many, many more. I got a mandolin, and then a second mandolin, and then an octave mandolin, and yet another mandolin (a slippery slope as we know!) and playing mando and continuing to learn about music is now one of my primary activities.
Thanks again and Happy Birthday! David in Seattle
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