3 Favorite Mandolin CDs (not by Bill, David, Ricky, Sam & Chris)

[RBMB]

Lots of thanks to people who've replied in the past. I like to bump this once a year to get the latest scoop on performers I'm not familiar with. Since its the third year and I've learned lots more about mandolin music, let's also skip anything that's not relatively new or that would be obvious to someone having familiarity with mandolin players (e.g., Andy Statman, Sierra Hull, John Reischman, Mike Marshall, Jethro Burns, Tiny Moore, Frank Wakefield, Butch Baldassari, Tony Williamson, and Matt Flinner). I know there are some gems out there from past posts.

[Bob Visentin]

My new fav from 2016 is
Chris Biesterfldt - Urban Mandolin

A little of everything from Bach to Beach Boys but mostly jazz.

[Mark Gunter]

John Reischman - Up In The Woods
Various Artists - Mandolin Artistry Volume 1: Young Mando Monsters
Anything with Norman and Nancy Blake (My current favorite is Directions)

Edit: Sorry, I missed second page post about wanting newer stuff. Carry on.

[re simmers]

Herschel Sizemore - Bounce Away
IIIrd Tyme Out - 1st project
Fred Geiger - self titled with Akira Otsuka, fantastic music

[Toni Schula]

My favorite three, no four CDs from my neighbourhood are






http://www.nugget.at

Recorded between 1988 and 2004. Nugget still is active, so let's wait for #5

But there are also so many other three favorite CDs from so many great mandolinists!

[Cosmic Graffiti]

Yank Rachell - Blues Mandolin man
Mr Natural - Julin
Shel - Shel (Eva Holbrook is an amazing mandolin player)
Mandolin Orange - Quiet Little Room
The Jazz Mandolin Project
Mandolin Blues - Various Artists

[chris.burcher]

Dawg - Dawg '90
Dawg - DGQ first record
Josh Pinkham - solo mandolin duets

just off the top of my head. impossible to choose favorites

[lflngpicker]

I'm ape for Bill's recordings, but other than those:

Yank Rachell Blues Mandolin Man
Best Loved Bluegrass - 20 All Time Favorites (rebel)
Classic Bluegrass - Smithsonian Folkways

[lukmanohnz]

Hadn't seen this thread before. Perhaps not my 'favorite' non-BDRSC CDs - always hard to choose favorites - but ones I feel are worthy of inclusion in the inner circle:
Reischman's Walk Along John
Walsh's Sweet Loam
Steffey's New Primitive

And as far as I'm concerned, the exclusion list should include Reischman. He's earned a seat at that table...

[AlanN]

As the thrust of this thread is predominantly on the newer/younger cats, I will add Matt Witler and David Benedict - both Boston-based players and the fellow in Special Consensus (forget his name, but took over the mandolin chair from Rick Farris, who switched to guitar). These guys are hot, musical, young and hungry.

[Matt Harris]

Dominick Leslie with The Brotet. I hope they plan on releasing more stuff soon:

The Brotet - Grisman, Leslie, Hargreaves, & Smith

[Skip Kelley]

Bobby Osborne, Me and my mandolin is a great album. Also the Rick Allred solo mandolin lp. The album cover looked like it was made from cardboard with a picture glued to it. I have a taped copy; wish I still had the album.

[red7flag]

IIIrd Tyme Out w/Alan Bibey - "IIIrd Tyme Out"
Adam Steffey - "New Primitive" or "One More for the Road"
Wayne Benson - "An Instrumental Anthology"

[farmerjones]

Wow!! How many days can I recommend the Pizza Tapes twice in as many treads.

[JeffD]

The Helsinki Mandoliners. Good stuff.

[William Smith]

Gene Johnson playing his feb,18th 24 Loar "first# in first batch" with Cliff Waldron and new shades of grass, His II Generation stuff with Adcock and if ya can find the bootlegs his stuff with JD Crowe and New South with Kieth Whitley. If ya can't find that his live at Carnegie Hall with David Bromberg, I believe it says live in NYC but its Carnegie Hall.
Some serious nasty playing with not your normal Loar sound!!!!

[9lbShellhamer]

I know this is an older post but THANK YOU FOR BUMPING IT UP! I really enjoyed checking out this list and it turned me on to a few albums I wasn't aware of!

My Favorites. (In no order)

Matt Flinner Trio. (All three albums, but if I HAD to pick...I dunno, Winter Harvest)
Peter Rowan- (Bluegrass Band- Legacy Album) AND Peter Rowan Tony Rice Quintet.
Mandolin Chronicles- Alan Bibey Wayne Benson
Adam Steffey- New Primitive
I also love Mandolin Orange...but it's not super flashy stuff, just great musicianship/writing.

[Chris Browne]

Adam Steffey - New Primitive
The Harmonic Tone Revealers
Doc and Dawg

[doc holiday]

Since this thread has come along since 2010.. I'll add another post:
Foghorn Duo - Caleb Klauder & Sammy Lind - great old time mando style & impeccable playing
Anything & everything from Joe Walsh - including the most recent Mr Sun, Borderland...& the Youtubes of Joe playing with Courtney Hartman.
Paul Glass -the mando magician of Austin: "One more Night"

[Sid Simpson]

Some interesting choices here. Thanks for updating.

Will Patton - String Theory, but they are all good.
John Reischman - North of the Border or Travelers
Emory Lester - At Dusk or any of the discs with Mark Johnson
Bonus choice - Don Stiernberg. By George, but they are all good.

[gtani7]

As the thrust of this thread is predominantly on the newer/younger cats, I will add Matt Witler and David Benedict - both Boston-based players and the fellow in Special Consensus (forget his name, but took over the mandolin chair from Rick Farris, who switched to guitar). These guys are hot, musical, young and hungry.

Nick Dumas is the fellow in Special C. I took a few weeks or months of lessons from him until he came back from IBMA and announced he was running away to Tennessee and to tour the world. Amazing player, and probably great on fiddle and guitar too but i never heard him play those (but he's not too good at self-promotion and not enough people know who he is).

[ralph johansson]

Hm, what exactly is a mandolin album? E.g., Nordic has released three beautiful CD's and on two of them there's (IIRC) a mandolin on every track, but none of the albums is mandolin centered (or cello centered or nyckelharpa centered for that matter), so I suppose they don't count. Here's what I've picked for today - tomorrow I may pick a different set:

Hamilton de Holanda: O Baile do Almeidinha

Butch Baldassari & John Carlini: Reflections

Mike Marshall Quintet: Tasting the Wine Country (featuring Paul McCandless on double reeds and soprano saxophone, and Philip Aaberg on piano)

[fentonjames]

Rowan Rice
Blake Rice
Blake Rice II

[AlanN]

One-Legged Gypsy - Bobby Clark
Gator Strut - Mike Marshall
Common Denominator - Ray Legere

[Nick Royal]

It's interesting to see the variety of music/cds people are listening to. Here are some I like a lot:
"Bass & Mandolin: Onward" - Brian Oberlin & Josh Feinberg (I love the combination of the bass & mando)
"Segunda Vez-Second Time" - Mike Marshall & Choro Famoso (great notes w.the cd!)
"Tractor" - Don Julin (funny tunes)
"Between Worlds" - Avi Avital - a really good classical player who brings together a group of fine musicians
...like someone else, I am a fan of Will Patton