Will , You bemoaned the lack of mandolin in popular music. If you haven't discovered a Toronto band called "The Cowboy Junkies", you're in for a treat. They've used a mandolin on some songs since "The Trinity Session" at least. It seems to me that the peak for mando songs was during the "The Caution Horses" and "Pale Moon, Crescent Sun" era. I have other favorites among their canon but these 3 have lots of mando.
By the way, JMDL's own Les Irvin plays a mean mandolin. I think he's a better, more interesting player than the Junkies' Jeff Bird. Les'es jams can be sampled on some of the 8 JoniFest 2002 discs. I agree about the Wilson sisters. Those girls do it all. A few weeks ago I picked up a later album called "Heart". It has "What About Love" on it which sounded a little new-agey on the radio but the album translates to "living room music" very well. As a photographer, I hate the photos on the covers of this album and I guess I assumed that they "lost it" but I was wrong. The songwriting is of a high standard. The singing and playing are ALWAYS solid. Love 'em. If there is a "bad" Heart album I haven't found it yet so I guess I'll keep on going. Lama, enjoying the latest tweak on the stereo: short out the unused inputs on the amp. (Not the outputs!) Mary said, >>>>>>I LOVE this line, I LOVE this song and I LOVE the guitar work on this song. This is one of my all time favorite Heart songs and album. And "Dream of the Archer"... why doesn't anybody do songs centered around a mandolin anymore???
