Some Solo Blues Mandolin

[mandocrucian]

Solo blues improv.

Found on an old DAT of some stuff from around 2001, about the Comando Sessions III was being put together. Just turned on the recorder and played into the stereo mic and let the tape run.

Played more like an electric guitar than a mandolin, in approach and technique. Would sound even funkier with bass and drums/percussion added; no guitars needed. Can't remember if it was the '23 F4 or the 1919 Gibson A. Either way...oval hole mando, both great sounding instruments.

https://soundcloud.com/user-64352297...-solo-mandolin

Niles H

[Ranald]

Thanks, Niles. Good stuff. Heard a bit of "Hoochie Coochie Man" near the beginning.

[bluesmandolinman]

only Niles gets that kind of quality vibrato out of a mandolin , thanks for the post

[bluesmandolinman]

shared in Facebook as this deserves attention ! awesome

[mandocrucian]

There's some other stuff up too.
http://https://soundcloud.com/user-643522979

The "Purple Haze" is a bit raw and chaotic. Someone had a recorder when I was doing a between-sets jam with a couple of 16-year old Finnish kids. This is just bass/drums/Gibson f4 mandolin w/Fishman bridge pickup plugged directly into a guitar amp. 1995, Oulunsalo, northern Finland. When you've absorbed the guitar vocab and techniques, you can pull-off a power trio with a "mandolin"!

Niles H.