Rich DelGrosso's Get Your Nose Outta My Bizness!
Rich DelGrosso's Get Your Nose Outta My Bizness!
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I was listening to Jesse McReynolds & Friends -Songs of the Grateful Dead today. If you’re into the Dead and the mandolin it’s hard to go wrong.
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman - Shady Grove
Reading through the previous postings, I didn't see many titles that I would have listed. Maybe it is because most of mine date back 50-30 years, and pre-date the collections of the younger Cafe players. So I'll throw this out as a resource list for those folks...ask your dad if he's got a copy of some of these!
Ry Cooder - Into the Purple Valley, Paradise & Lunch
R. Crumb & The Cheap Suit Serenaders - The Cheap Suit Serenaders, 2 (aka Chasin' Rainbows) (Alan Dodge, mando)
various - Early Mandolin Classics
Johnny Young - I Can't Keep My Foot From Stomping
Tiny Moore - Tiny Moore Music
Jethro Burns - Swing Low Sweet Mandolin
Niles Hokkanen - On Fire & Ready!
Ben Trout - Metalgrass - Instrumental Electric Mandolin
Dave Swarbrick - Swarbrick/Swarbrick 2
Fairport Convention - Angel Delight (Dave Swarbrick, Dave Pegg, mandos)
Jethro Tull - Catfish Rising, The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
Planxty - Planxty, The Well Below The Valley, Cold Blow and the Rainy Night (Andy Irvine, mando)
Mick Moloney - Strings Attached
Andy Irvine & Paul Brady - Andy Irvine & Paul Brady
Paul Brady - Welcome Here Kind Stranger
Lindisfarne - Nicely Out Of Tune (Ray Jackson, mando)
Whippersnapper - Promises (Dave Swarbick, Chris Leslie mandos and fiddles)
The Helsinki Mandoliners - The Helsinki Mandoliners
Jarmo Rompanen - Nordic Mandolin
Jimmy Gaudreau - The Gaudreau Mandolin Album, Classic JAG
Doyle Lawson - Tennessee Dream
Tony Rice - Guitar (Larry Rice on mando)
Larry Rice & Niles Hokkanen - Larry Rice & Niles Hokkanen
Frank Wakefield - Frank Wakefield with Country Cooking, The Good Old Boys
The Tim Ware Group - The Tim Ware Group
Buzz Busby & Leon Morris - Honkytonk Bluegrass
Larry Sparks - Lonesome Guitar
David Grisman - The David Grisman Rounder Album
Muleskinner - Muleskinner
Skaggs & Rice
Ricky Skaggs - Boone Creek
Dave Apollon - The Man With The Mandolin
there are others, but I can't recall specific album titles... Jody Stecher did some fine playing on solo and albums with his wife Kate Brislin.
Other albums, usually with a doubler/multi-instrumentalist, might only have a one, two or three tracks with mando: I'm thinking of Sid Page (with Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks), Dave Swarbrick, Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Martin Carthy (solo, Brass Monkey), Martin Jenkins (Dandoshaft, Hedgehog Pie), (70s-80s) Ricky Skaggs, Richard Thompson, Johnny Gimble, Ian Anderson . Stecher plays about 5 or 6 different instruments.
Some of my favorite mandolin players played something else (fiddle, guitar, electric guitar, flute) as their primary instrument, and this is what made their mando playing so attractive to my ear - a different vocabulary and approach.
Niles Hokkanen
So many...Only things I think haven't been mentioned specifically are the Grisman/Rice Tone Poem albums and Don Stiernberg's latest, Straight Ahead.
Listening to Tiny Moore on this a lot lately.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eIjh-6qMglI
hands down one of my favorite is noam pikelny getting ronnie mccoury on his baker play monroe album
hold on were strumming with grisman and bush
as well as anything dawg.
the noam album really sticks out for me because you get to hear alot of monroe tunes you dont get to hear big ronnie on a whole lot
Peter Oshtroushko - The Mando Chronicles
Andy Statman - Flatbush Waltz
Beethoven -
- Sonatina in C minor, WoO 43, No. 1
- Adagio in E-flat, WoO 43, No. 2
- Sonatina in C, WoO 44, No. 1
- Andante and Variations in D, WoO 44, No. 2
By no means the whole list, just what is on top of the pile without moving anything too much.
I had to go to my mandolin collection (all over the place) and select some cds I really like. Here you go:
Cafe Brasil - wonderful choro music and a really nice booklet
Contratopia: "Smitten" - the 3rd recording by John Goodin and friends
Peter Ostroushko - "Coming Down from Red Lodge" (I actually have all, or almost all of Peter's great recordings)
David Grisman, Martin Taylor and Frank Vignola: "First Time Together!" (like many others...I have a lot of Grisman's recordings)
Caterina Lichtenberg - "Solo" a new classical recording by her and it is really good!
Avi Vital - "Between Worlds" (largely classical; he plays with other first rate musicians)
from Marilynn Mair: "Meu Bandolier" with some lovely piano duets w. Luiz Simas
& her "The Mandolin in the 18th Century" - lovely playing with various other artists
....that's a start.
Nick
Excellent list Nick.
Formerly from Aptos,
Jeff
Surprised that nobody mentioned Norman Blake (Rising Fawn String Quartet). Mind I have been out of the Mando community for a decade or so. I have just dug out a transcription of his piece 'Thebes' from the Directions album. A challenge for an old bloke but the old mando needs to do more than hang on the wall.
Here are some international recordings:
Carlo Aonzo and Katsumi Nagaoka - Kaze
Giovanni Giovale -Mandolin & Banjo
Júlio Pereira - O Meu Bandolim
MandolinMan - Old Tunes, Dusted Down
Radim Zenkl - Mandolin Parade
Simon Mayor first two recordings
SnaarmaarWaar -SnaarmaarWaar
Cristobal Soto - Calle Real
Ensamble Gurrufío - Maroa
Cordas Dedilhadas de Pernambuco
Ensamble Gurrufio w Hamilton - Sessoes
Joel Nascimento - Chorando de Verdade
Jorge Cardoso - Som de Bandolim
Os Ingenuos - Choros from Brasil
Paul Kelly Mandolin Album
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