Woody tone from G and D strings

[Brian Baker]

One of my favorite aspects of the mandolin sound is the great "woody" sound that a good mandolin produces in the low registers, particularly the G and D strings...(My A9 is wonderful in this range!)

So coming home from our band practice a few minutes ago, I was listening to Adam Steffey's classic intro and outro on "Every Time You Say Goodbye" by AKUS. I absolutely *love* the tone Steffey pulls out of the mando on the final 3 notes of that song...it just barks out at you!

Does anyone else know what I'm talking about? If so, could you point to any other classic recorded examples of exceptionally "woody" sounding notes/tone?

Thanks,
Brian

[GBG]

Listen to Bob Applebaum on the Cafe mp3 "I've Cried Enough".

[RobP]

Listen to "I'll Fly Away" on the Oh Brother CD.

Cheers,
Rob

[Milan Christi]

Listen to Mountain Heart - unbeleiveable mandolin tone on this CD by - who else? - Adam Steffey.

Applebaum's tune really sounds great, too!

[futrconslr]

Listen to just about anything Compton plays.....the more I hear him the more I am becoming a fan.

[abram]

I was watching compton play, and I figured out where some of that comes from- if you play some really hard tremelo (like monroe on rawhide) on the G and D string really close the bridge, you get maximum woodyness. its cool.

[JenWantstaJam]

I agree GibsonA9 - I love that exact same part. mmmmmmmmm is it a gibson he's playing?

[mingusb1]

The attack and woody tone of Tim O'Brien's playing on the Hot Rize recordings (see "Take it Home" for example) is my favorite. #Yup, my favorite!!

He has a nack for making complex stuff sound simple, but not TOO polished (and so still traditional sounding to me). #Double-stops, tremolo, ringing open cords, it's all there. #He can make that Nugget sing!

Z

[Harrmob]

The intro to "Salt Creek Revisited" by Emory Lester. The intro is in D and "fat".

[evanreilly]

Monroe takes a sliding up doublestop break on the G and D strings on 'Fire on the Mountain'... that, along with his shuffle, defines 'woody'.

[Scotti Adams]

Buck White....anything he played on the "More Pretty Girls Than One" Lp....talk about wood....thats wood.

[wallflower]

John Reischman's "North of the BORDER" is all about tone.

[wallflower]

Oh and Bruce Harvie's "Mandolin Graffiti". #Bruce gets some mighty fine tone out of that Monteleone he used.

[mikeh]

Listen to the break and kick that Ronnie Mac takes on 'How Long Blues',.....ahhhh.....
PERFECTION IN TONE AND TIMING.
But I'm not partial or anything.

[Vincent]

Ron Thomason plays a solo variation of Soldiers Joy on Bill Evans "Native and Fine" that just sticks in my head. Super dry tone. And Grisman has this way of spanking his G string that makes it vibrate and ring like nothing else. Too many examples to mention. : ) So what's classic? How about Monroe's 50's break to On And On, with that buzzing G string?

[KevinM]

I think one epitome of woodiness is almost any solo played by David McLaughlin - I've heard he lets the strings stay on forever to get that sound, but my original theory was that his mandolin, strings and picks were all constructed of wood.

Homer sez "Mmmmm....woooood."

[telepbrman]

Dawg Funk...dy.