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Nickel Creek Smoothie Song tablature

Patron Rhyver at Patreon.com asked for this. I tabbed this out several years ago. This Side was an incredible Nickel Creek album

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Very excited about today’s mandolin blues instruction. This lick comes through the playing of Hollywood Fats (Michael Mann), who is in my

I learned 30 years ago from a blues electric guitarist and have adapted as a mandolin blues lick. It’s a bit of

This is a great straightforward mandolin blues lick that serves as either an ending lick or turnaround in a C blues. Played

This past week was my 10th annual Richter Mandolin Camp. In terms of genre, it focuses on blues and rock. For example

\ Today’s blues mandolin instruction: Howling Wolf! This website provides mandolin blues instruction by Jim Richter, acknowledged expert in blues &

Blue Sky Blues: Mississippi Blacksnakes (Bo Carter and Charlie McCoy) ~1930 – Brunswick 7199 Another Charlie McCoy blues mandolin tune, this time

Today’s This lick I learned from SRV’s playing. Originally a Howling Wolf tune, you’ll hear it on “Tell Me” from the Texas

This lick is one that I love to use over the IV chord. I first heard the lick used in the playing