Mandolin Archives

Original Mandolin Tune: Cleona by Jim Richter

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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

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