Have you hear the Mandolin in the Cow Camp album by Skip Gorman? Some of the best old time mandolin I've heard.
-Justin On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Robin Gravina <robin.grav...@gmail.com>wrote: > Where does it come from? > > When I was a child I was exposed only to classical music: Wagner mainly due > to family connections, but plenty of Mozart and other things, and I listened > and thought I appreciated, until one day under the covers I heard the Sex > Pistols, the Damned and the Ramones on a radio I had built myself (John > Peel of course): 1976 and me with 13 tender years. I just loved the early > Punk groups but then I discovered country blues with John Hurt, Skip James > and early Chicago: Little Walter and so on at 17- all through a guitar > player who worked through the Stephan Grossman books between fixes. I had a > massive hardcore reggae phase - U-Roy and the Dub masters in general - King > Tubby and Scientist. I was an obsessive Velvet Underground fan for a while, > loved Black Flag and Skate Punk, Nick Cave and the Fall, worshipped amateur > ramshackle groups like the Raincoats, the Slits and the Cravats. > > But I just can't stop listening to Monroe at his wildest, Hartford, and old > Fiddle players - I have to admit that I don't really like many mandolin > players, despite my decision to practically abandon the guitar to learn how > to play the thing, but there's something about the real old time music that > just grabs me. I could listen to Monroe exclusively for days and days. If I > learnt the piano, I wouldn't try to play like Art Tatum, Errol Garner, or > Bill Evans, much as I like them, but would go for boogie woogie or > barrelhouse. What is it about few chords, wild energy and free expression of > bad emotions that does it for me? Ali Farka touré does the same thing, but > so do Flipper and Big Daddy Kane. In the end, I wonder if chords and harmony > are just a distraction. Melody, rhythm and texture are what I love. > > Ok, that's off my chest! Needed to say that. I love music. > Best > Robin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Taterbugmando" group. > To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<taterbugmando%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
