Mando/Guitar/Vocal Duos

[Christine Robins]

My guitar-playing friend and I have formed a duo. I'm interested in recordings of other guitar/mando/vocal duos, especially non-bluegrass ones. I'm already familiar with The Monroe Bros., Garcia & Grisman, Skaggs & Rice, and Thile & Daves. What else would you recommend?

[dustyamps]

Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum. Check out their music on youtube.

[Mandoplumb]

Take any song you like and work it to a mandolin, guitar, vocal duet. A lot of Reno Smiley duet work with these instruments although not recorded as such. Other songs may just be waiting for y'all to do them this way.

[Milky2390]

Mandolin Orange:
https://youtu.be/2YNmsNvsiYM
The Honey Dewdrops use mandolin a little: https://youtu.be/26DJMs9uagA

[Roman Pekar]

The ones I would like to sound like are

Cahalen Morrison & Eli West:



Eamon O'Leary & Jefferson Hamer aka Murphy Beds:



Andy Irvine & Paul Brady

[EdHanrahan]

Jimmy Gadreau & Moondi Klein.

When they were part of newgrass Chesapeake, Moondi's guitar was fairly subdued behind super-star mandolin, dobro, and bass players. As a duo, their interweave of guitar, mandolin, and vocal lines is simply spectacular:
http://www.mandolincafe.com/news/pub...ns_00818.shtml

They have at least one add'l release, as well.

[Mark Gunter]

Jimmy & Moondi

[Martin Jonas]

The obvious ones missing so far from this thread are the Louvin Brothers:



And of course Bill & Doc:



As far as non-bluegrass goes, how about:

Show Of Hands:



Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick:



Martin

[allenhopkins]

Many of these duos in hillbilly music. I would strongly recommend the Blue Sky Boys (Bill and Earl Bolick) as one of the best. Bill Bolick used his (Martin?) mandolin as sort of a "third voice" in the harmony.

[Bren]

I like the Buckhannon Brothers. Straight ahead stuff.

[CarlM]

There are also the various combinations that David Grisman has created like Doc and Dawg, Del and Dawg and the things he did with Tony Rice like Tone Poems and the Pizza Tapes. Pizza Tapes of course was two guitars with Garcia in there and quite a bit of Doc and Dawg had Jack Lawrence in there also.

Norman Blake has done his share also recording with Tony Rice often with Norman on mandolin for several cuts and his Meeting on Southern Soil with Peter Ostrouschko.

[mandroid]

Homer and Jethro

[A 4]

The Twilite Broadcasters have several Youtube videos as well. Here is one:

[Dagger Gordon]

Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott.

http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/sh...=darrell+scott

[Dan Adams]

John Lowell and Ben Winship

[onassis]

IMO, these guys are the sweetest mando/guitar duo going. They also have a ton of vids on youtube.

Another-

[Charles E.]

Joe Walsh and Courtney Hartman........

[Charles E.]

Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell........

[JeffD]

Just to reiterate what others have said, my all time favorites

Louvin Brothers
Blue Sky Boys
Homer and Jethro

and did anyone mention the Armstrong Twins?

[Beanzy]

Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms







And at the Portland OT Gathering

http://youtu.be/EQT19R9Qh2Y?list=PLC...UjYyFc_yNdyY_X

[CarlM]

There is Joe Walsh and Grant Gordy

[Northwest Steve]

Joe Walsh and Courtney Hartman........

That is Celia Woodsmith singing backup. She is the leas singer and band mate of Courtney in the band Della Mae.

[Christine Robins]

Thanks for all the great recommendations. I've got a lot of listening to do! So far, Mandolin Orange is the model for what my partner & I are aiming for.

[Spruce]

I'm interested in recordings of other guitar/mando/vocal duos, especially non-bluegrass ones.

I did a recording with the aforementioned Reeb and Caleb called "Oh Do You Remember" a couple years ago...
We used all vintage ribbon mics and Altec pres, and wound up releasing it in mono--it sounded great that way.

You can listen to snippets of it here...