Good Mandola albums

[GuyIncognito]

Can anyone recommend any good albums where you can hear some mandola clearly? I'd love to find a Bach recording or something but anythings good. Thanks

[Tobin]

Check out Don Grieser's album "Hillbilly Chamber Music". It's a great album with some good mandola playing (as well as other mandolin family instruments). He's a member here.

http://www.hillbillychambermusic.com/

[Don Grieser]

Thanks, Tobin!

[mrmando]

Well, this'll be a short thread...

[Dave Kirkpatrick]

Daniel Estrem has two great albums that feature solo mandola for music by JS Bach. Estrem plays both the Partitas and Cello Suites. They are wonderful recordings.

[Nate Lee]

Check out Steve Smith's music. Steve plays mandola in a variety of styles.

http://desertnight.com/

[foldedpath]

It's not an album, but whenever the topic of great mandola tunes comes up, I always recommend a single track on the Liz Carroll/John Doyle album Double Play, titled "Little Christmas / The Old Course / The Twilight Child." Here's the preview on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Christ.../dp/B001ROS118

John is famous as an Irish trad guitar player, but he occasionally dabbles in bouzouki and mandola like this, and I just love this track. Mandola is on the first and third tunes in the set. Buy it, it's only $0.99! Or get the whole album which is fantastic, but it's all fiddle and guitar aside from this track.

Edit to update: I just noticed the full track is here on YouTube (apparently with permission):

[Marcus CA]

On John Reischman's Walk Along John album, he plays mandola on four of the tunes.