In my quest to learn the mandolin, I’ve been playing my favorite bluegrassy, folksy, old-school country bands on the stereo, and trying to ferret out the chords along with the music. Johnny Cash (of course), Hackensaw Boys (my home-mountain band), Nickel Creek, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Dixie Chicks, Greg Brown, Gram Parsons and my newest [...]
Posts Tagged ‘song rec’
Sometimes all you gotta do is ask.
Posted in music, tagged mandolin, music, song rec, the fox hunt on January 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Mando-Madness
Posted in music, tagged mandolin, music, song rec on December 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
After several months of learning on my $30 eBay special which has served me well as an intro instrument, I took the plunge: I bought myself a shiny new mandolin: It’s an Ibanez M510. Low on price in the grand scheme of things, but good parts and better for the sum of them. I would [...]