hell yeah mandolinists and large bird appreciators unite
March 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
hell yeah mandolinists and large bird appreciators unite
#OTD #TDIH #May28, 1910: #HBD #TBoneWalker! #BluesPioneers #Guitarists #Singers #Songwriters #Composers #Pianists #Banjoists #Ukuleleists #Violinists #Mandolinists #AfricanAmericans #BlackAmericans #TexasBlues #JumpBlues #WestCoastBlues #ElectricBlues #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfMg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfMg...
T-Bone Walker - Call It Stormy Monday (1947)
YouTube video by Okmusix
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May 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
last Saturday "The Mandolinists" playing at Ardagh Market in Bristol
November 15, 2024 at 4:24 PM
last Saturday "The Mandolinists" playing at Ardagh Market in Bristol
I don't understand how mandolinists fit their fingers between those tiny frets. And you gotta push down those double strings so hard!
June 25, 2024 at 1:42 AM
I don't understand how mandolinists fit their fingers between those tiny frets. And you gotta push down those double strings so hard!
When I'm playing a tune that goes back a century or two, I think of all the fiddlers and flautists and mandolinists who played those same notes before me, all of us linked by tradition, and I like to imagine maybe one of them played it even more clumsily than I am.
January 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
When I'm playing a tune that goes back a century or two, I think of all the fiddlers and flautists and mandolinists who played those same notes before me, all of us linked by tradition, and I like to imagine maybe one of them played it even more clumsily than I am.
#OTD #TDIH #March16, 1975: #DOTD: #RIP #TBoneWalker. #BluesPioneers #Guitarists #Singers #Songwriters #Composers #Pianists #Banjoists #Ukuleleists #Violinists #Mandolinists #AfricanAmericans #BlackAmericans #TexasBlues #JumpBlues #WestCoastBlues #ElectricBlues #BluesSky #MusicSky
Call It Stormy Monday
YouTube video by T-Bone Walker - Topic
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March 15, 2026 at 11:11 PM
filthy mandolinists!
July 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
filthy mandolinists!
#OTD #TDIH #May28, 1910: #HBD #TBoneWalker! #BluesPioneers #Guitarists #Singers #Songwriters #Composers #Pianists #Banjoists #Ukuleleists #Violinists #Mandolinists #AfricanAmericans #BlackAmericans #TexasBlues #JumpBlues #WestCoastBlues #ElectricBlues #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfMg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfMg...
T-Bone Walker - Call It Stormy Monday (1947)
YouTube video by Okmusix
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May 28, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Like the #mandolin? @davidsoncollege.bsky.social will host a Mandolin Symposium including 2 concerts this Fri-Sat 2/7-8. On this week's WDAV Piedmont Arts podcast, I talk with organizers/mandolinists Michael Orlando and Jonah Horton. Listen here or at Apple or Spotify. www.wdav.org/programs/pie...
February 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Like the #mandolin? @davidsoncollege.bsky.social will host a Mandolin Symposium including 2 concerts this Fri-Sat 2/7-8. On this week's WDAV Piedmont Arts podcast, I talk with organizers/mandolinists Michael Orlando and Jonah Horton. Listen here or at Apple or Spotify. www.wdav.org/programs/pie...
#OTD #TDIH #March16, 1975: #DOTD: #RIP #TBoneWalker. #BluesPioneers #Guitarists #Singers #Songwriters #Composers #Pianists #Banjoists #Ukuleleists #Violinists #Mandolinists #AfricanAmericans #BlackAmericans #TexasBlues #JumpBlues #WestCoastBlues #ElectricBlues #BluesSky #MusicSky
T-Bone Walker w/ Jazz At The Philharmonic - Live in UK 1966
YouTube video by xraymusicdotcodotuk
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March 15, 2026 at 11:10 PM
The Tuesday night bluegrass jam at The Landseer Arms had fourteen pickers at its peak tonight. Three top mandolinists plus me on mandolin, Ced on dobro, Caspar on musical saw, Neala, Luca, Tom, and Victor on guitar, Laura and Stuart on fiddle, Chris on 🪕, and the great Theo on doghouse bass. Fun❗️
June 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The Tuesday night bluegrass jam at The Landseer Arms had fourteen pickers at its peak tonight. Three top mandolinists plus me on mandolin, Ced on dobro, Caspar on musical saw, Neala, Luca, Tom, and Victor on guitar, Laura and Stuart on fiddle, Chris on 🪕, and the great Theo on doghouse bass. Fun❗️
A great night at The Landseer Arms, N19 4JU, weekly bluegrass 🪕🎻save my school boy errors on The Lonesome River. 😞 Two top guitarists, two virtuoso fiddlers, Theo on double bass, Ced on dobro, Caspar Cronk on musical saw & autoharp, two crackin’ mandolinists as well as me.😞Come see us next Tuesday!
June 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
A great night at The Landseer Arms, N19 4JU, weekly bluegrass 🪕🎻save my school boy errors on The Lonesome River. 😞 Two top guitarists, two virtuoso fiddlers, Theo on double bass, Ced on dobro, Caspar Cronk on musical saw & autoharp, two crackin’ mandolinists as well as me.😞Come see us next Tuesday!
Eavesdropping on the mandolinists preparing for this evening’s performance.
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August 22, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Eavesdropping on the mandolinists preparing for this evening’s performance.
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June 26, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Every Tuesday night there is free bluegrass 🪕pickin’ at The Landseer Arms pub in Archway, north London N10 4JU. We had three fine mandolinists, two top guitarists, a dobro, a doghouse bass, a musical saw, and an autoharp tonight plus the bluegrass answer to Stephane Grappelli. 🎻You talk about fun!
January 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Every Tuesday night there is free bluegrass 🪕pickin’ at The Landseer Arms pub in Archway, north London N10 4JU. We had three fine mandolinists, two top guitarists, a dobro, a doghouse bass, a musical saw, and an autoharp tonight plus the bluegrass answer to Stephane Grappelli. 🎻You talk about fun!
#OTD #TDIH #May28, 1910: #HBD #TBoneWalker! #BluesPioneers #Guitarists #Singers #Songwriters #Composers #Pianists #Banjoists #Ukuleleists #Violinists #Mandolinists #AfricanAmericans #BlackAmericans #TexasBlues #JumpBlues #WestCoastBlues #ElectricBlues #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFqK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFqK...
T-Bone Walker w/ Jazz At The Philharmonic - Live in UK 1966
YouTube video by xraymusicdotcodotuk
www.youtube.com
May 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM
#OTD #TDIH #May28, 1910: #HBD #TBoneWalker! #BluesPioneers #Guitarists #Singers #Songwriters #Composers #Pianists #Banjoists #Ukuleleists #Violinists #Mandolinists #AfricanAmericans #BlackAmericans #TexasBlues #JumpBlues #WestCoastBlues #ElectricBlues #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFqK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFqK...
T-Bone Walker w/ Jazz At The Philharmonic - Live in UK 1966
YouTube video by xraymusicdotcodotuk
www.youtube.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Wow! Thanks for that. A couple years ago, an instructor told a bunch of us geezer mandolinists that we should not practice so as to sound like Chris Thile. “To do that, you would have to have started when you were 5 years old!”
(And be massively talented)
(And be massively talented)
April 6, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Wow! Thanks for that. A couple years ago, an instructor told a bunch of us geezer mandolinists that we should not practice so as to sound like Chris Thile. “To do that, you would have to have started when you were 5 years old!”
(And be massively talented)
(And be massively talented)
really exquisite writing. like many (maybe most) mandolinists, Thile is a huge inspiration to me. I've spent enough time admiring his music and stagecraft to know that he's smart enough to speak full throatedly about his beliefs—but he really does love to defang himself. also my problem with Dylan.
having too much to say about going to see Chris Thile on the night the new forever war begins again www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/fretting/
Fretting
Chris Thile shocks and awes in Berkeley as a new war dawns in Iran.
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March 7, 2026 at 4:45 PM
really exquisite writing. like many (maybe most) mandolinists, Thile is a huge inspiration to me. I've spent enough time admiring his music and stagecraft to know that he's smart enough to speak full throatedly about his beliefs—but he really does love to defang himself. also my problem with Dylan.