John Reischman is one of my favorite mandolin players – I love the sound that he produces with his great Lloyd Loar mandolin. A recent podcast of the CBC presents a concert with John Reischman and the Jaybirds Mandolin master John Reischman and his band the Jaybirds play upbeat, foot-stomping bluegrass in this concert from [...]
A German Blog has just written about an interview that David Grisman has made with Chris Thile in 2008 Interview mit den beiden Mandolinen-Virtuosen David Grisman und Chris Thile http://www.gitarrengurte.de/blog/?p=1169 This is an interesting post with a lot of informations about David Grisman and Chris Thile. The Interview was published in the Fretboard Journal in [...]
Today I found a tweet about the following videof of the Steep Canyon Ranmgers with Steep Canyon Rangers – Knob Creek One of SCR’s signature songs. Written by mandolinist Mike Guggino it’s a tour de force for the entire band. A hauntingly beautiful melody which flows through many tempo and mood changes SCR really shines. [...]
Emily Robison and Martie Maguire from the Dixie Chicks have just releases their first Album. The Swiss radio DRS has produced a radio show with many songs of the Dixie Chicks which is available as podcast for the next three weeks at: http://www.drs.ch/www/de/drs/sendungen/on-the-road-again/2720.sh10135474.html The Story Behind Court Yard Hounds Emily Robison and Martie Maguire from [...]
A mix of mainly bluegrass and some other styles is available as a concert on demand of the CBC: Concert on Demand Lickin’ Good Fried with Andrew Collins (mandolin): http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20091103lickn The band describes itsself on their homepage http://www.lickingoodfried.com/ as The Scrappiest Country Band in Toronto and plays tasty country music. Singer Alex Pangman is happy [...]