My Top 5 Mandolin Heroes Are Guitar Players!

[Glassweb]

Here's a list of my top 5 mandolin heroes... who are yours?

1. Django Reinhardt
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Joni Mitchell
4. Lynn Taitt
5. Memphis Minnie

[MediumMando5722]

I'm a newb, so my list is probably pretty predictable:

1. Chris Thile
2. Tim O'Brien
3. Sam Bush
4. Mike Marshall
5. Darrell Scott

[Glassweb]

I'm a newb, so my list is probably pretty predictable:

1. Chris Thile
2. Tim O'Brien
3. Sam Bush
4. Mike Marshall
5. Darrell Scott

no Chris... you have to list 5 guitar players who have influenced your mandolin playing... that's what i'm going for here.

[Pittsburgh Bill]

1. Jerry Reed (Peter Ostrusko)
2. Chet Atkins (Chris Thile)
3 Keith Richards (David Grisman)
4. Alvin Lee (Sam Bush)
5. Eric Clapton (Charlie Rappaport)

[RichieK]

Ok. I'm in with my 'current' list..
1.Clarence White
2.Django
3.Sebastien Giniaux
4.David Grier
5.Bireli Lagrene

[foldedpath]

Does it have to be guitar players? Given the music I'm playing now (Irish/Scottish/Cape Breton), it's no surprise that my top 5 are fiddlers, fluters, and pipers:

1. Kevin Burke (fiddle)
2. Paddy Fahey (fiddle)
3. Liz Carroll (fiddle)
4. Matt Molloy (flute)
5. Fred Morrison (pipes, low whistle)

Well, that's mostly Irish and leaves out the Cape Breton crew, but it's a start. I have to admit that I don't actually have a "mandolin hero" in this music. There are some great players now, but I keep coming back to the fiddles, flute, and pipes for inspiration. And tunes to learn. It's just a huge, deep well, and not much of it has ever been recorded or performed on mandolin (yet).

For guitar players I guess it would be John Doyle, Dáithí Sproule, Dennis Cahill, and a few others, but I don't find the same direct correlation to what I want to do on mandolin as I do with fiddlers.

[MediumMando5722]

no Chris... you have to list 5 guitar players who have influenced your mandolin playing... that's what i'm going for here.

Oops... sorry. In that case, I don't have a list yet. I'm still too new to being influenced by mandolin players to look outside that

[mrmando]

Bill Frisell
Hugh Marsh
Martin Hayes
Stuff Smith
Clarence Gatemouth Brown

[darylcrisp]

these folks really have impressed me with how they play guitar and mandolin, and I really enjoy listening to them a lot.

1) Mark Beale(in fact, Mark built his own guitar on this album)
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/markbeale
2)Emory Lester (Emory is a hoss on guitar)
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/emorylester2
http://www.northfieldinstruments.com...at-dusk-detail
3)Sarah Jarosz (first time I ever saw/heard Sarah was at Bristol Rhythm&Roots. She was on stage by herself. She played mandolin, banjo, while singing, and at the end, borrowed a big Gibson J200 and banged out this fantastic version of Country Blues

4)Sierra Hull, equally adept at guitar as she is with mandolin


5)Dan Tyminski (monster guitar and mando player-I first saw him at Bristol Rhythm& Roots also)

[Glassweb]

[QUOTE=foldedpath;1504971]Does it have to be guitar players? Given the music I'm playing now (Irish/Scottish/Cape Breton), it's no surprise that my top 5 are fiddlers, fluters, and pipers:

NO pipers, fiddlers, vibe players, tympanists etc... GUITARS folks... GUITARS! jeez...

[Barry Wilson]

Tommy Shaw
John Paul Jones/ Jimmy Page
Steve Earl
Glen Frey
Jerry Garcia

[DavidKOS]

One of my guitar heroes IS a mandolin player, Steve Howe of Yes.

[Fretbear]

Doc Watson
George Shuffler
Josh Graves
Robert Johnson
Anthony Rice

[AlanN]

Django
Mike Bloomfield
Wes
Jimmy Raney
Tal Farlow

tomorrow I'll have 5 others

[mandopops]

Andres Segovia
Charlie Christian
Freddie Green
Chuck Berry
Eric Clapton

Joe B

[T.D.Nydn]

1. Django Reinhart 2. Al DiMeola 3. John McLaughlin 4.Mike Stern 5. Y. Malmsteen 6. "buckethead"

[brunello97]

One of my guitar heroes IS a mandolin player, Steve Howe of Yes.

....playing a Martin spruce-and-rosewood flat-back mandolin. Good for him.

Mick

[F-2 Dave]

Doc Watson
Merle Travis
Chet Atkins
D'jango Reinhardt
Eric Clapton

Hard to keep it to just five.

[jaycat]

Bill Frisell
Hugh Marsh
Martin Hayes
Stuff Smith
Clarence Gatemouth Brown

Stuff Smith played guitar?

OK, in no particular order . . .

Ry Cooder
Richard Thompson
Rev. Gary Davis
Kenny Burrell
Blind Blake

All players who know how to use space . . . not overly 'notey.'

[Jim Garber]

That is funny... My Top 5 Guitar Heroes Are Mandolin Players!