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Mandolin Blues Lick of the Day #16 – 7.27.23

Today’s mandolin blues instruction: turnarounds. Lots of cool ways to do them in blues. What you’ll find is that you gravitate toward

If you only were to own one acoustic duet album, you could do no better than Blake and Rice. The two Tony

To me, Free was one of the most important rock bands of the 1970’s. They helped move the blues-based rock of the

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Growing up, you couldn’t escape either Country Gazette or Berline, Crary, and Hickman. Byron Berline dazzled on the fiddle.. The Oklahoma fiddler

This was probably the tune that made it ok for me to like (and eventually love) Led Zeppelin. As a teen bluegrass

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