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Old Time Mandolin: Blake & Rice “New Chance Blues”

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

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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

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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 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

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