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Rock Mandolin: Free’s “All Right Now”

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

This isn’t so much a lick as one way to back up a blues tune. This is in the key of E

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