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Artists and recordings Find on this page Press Enter to find. In Netscape, repeat Enter for further occurrences In Internet Explorer, Ctrl + Home, click in the box again, then Enter for next occurrence Free JavaScripts provided by The JavaScript Source Diary of a Rock and Roll Photographer includes pages with concert pics of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones http://4bz.netfirms.com/flecktones.htm and the Dixie Chicks http://4bz.netfirms.com/dixiechicks.htm Home page http://4bz.netfirms.com/ (some use of the f- word) Interview with Joe Carr at Texas Music and Video site http://www.musicvideo.com/spccarr.html Bluegrass Journey, "a documentary film portrait of the contemporary bluegrass music scene", is now available on DVD and video - see the informative site at http://www.bluegrassjourney.com/index.html   Artists and songs are listed. The Dillards complete bio and discography courtesy Thomas Aubrunner at http://members.chello.at/thomas.aubrunner/dillard.htm TaperFriendly has links to some really useful looking downloads (you would need broadband however - enormous file sizes!) http://www.taperfriendly.com/ Quite a wide range of CDs reviewed at Pause Record http://www.pauserecord.com/tim/ Informative article about the Dixie Chicks at Acoustic Guitar website http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag89/CoverStory.shtml And plenty of other interesting artists http://www.acguitar.com/artists/index.shtml Home page http://www.acguitar.com/ Lots of Grateful Dead links Great cartoon of John Duffey on the Seldom Scene's home page http://www.seldomscene.com/ and photos at http://www.seldomscene.com/Duffeyphotos.html Steve Kaufman's Stylin' CD includes 7 tracks with Red Rector Out-of-print vinyl records available from Vinyl Rehab, e.g bluegrass LPs Home page http://vinylrehab.home.mindspring.com/index.html Links to more sources for vinyl listed at http://www.ibiblio.org/hillwilliam/BGdiscography/sources.htm Bluegrass South East (UK) midi page has lots of nice MIDI versions of tunes Interview with David Lindley at the Acoustic Guitar site http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag90/coverstory.shtml Joe Carr MP3s at http://www.acousticmusician.com/JoeCarr.html Lots of interest at Bluegrass Works site, including record reviews, MP3 samples and artist profiles http://www.bluegrassworks.com Pic of Bill Monroe later in his life at Musix site http://www.musixnow.com/Monroe%20portrait.html Women In Bluegrass - not much here yet, but watch this space http://www.peonqueen.com/watchme/index.html MusicShed sell bluegrass and other acoustic music recordings http://www.musicshed.com/ Eclectic range of interviews with musicians at Rambles http://www.rambles.net/music_interviews.html Home page of this wide-ranging site http://www.rambles.net/index.html Lots of bluegrass and country (including old time) bios at Century of Country http://www.countryworks.com/ Old time music MP3s of the Woolevers at http://www.culcom.net/~shadow1/audiosamples.htm The Woolevers home page at http://www.culcom.net/~shadow1/markandliza.htm What Andy Statman is doing nowadays http://www.forward.com/issues/2004/04.01.23/arts2.html RealAudio soundclips from Don Stiernberg's album Night Skies http://www.donstiernberg.com/sounds.shtml Country and folk MP3s (including bluegrass artists) at emusic http://www.emusic.com/genres/286/a/ Links to Bill Monroe pages and recordings at LookSmart Bob Dylan Musical Roots and Influences pages courtesy Manfred Helfert http://www.bobdylanroots.com/ Rick Townend, UK multi-instrumentalist, has a new URL and site at http://www.ricktownend.com MP3 of Fisher's Hornpipe played by young mando champion Josh Pinkham http://www.joshpinkham.com/listen.htm And Josh's already impressive bio at http://www.joshpinkham.com/bio.htm Biography of Rudy Cipolla at DawgNet http://www.dawgnet.com/acd_html/artists/cipolla.html Links to other artist biographies on Acoustic Disc http://www.dawgnet.com/acd_splash.html And more useful links at http://www.dawgnet.com/links.html Links to just about every name mandolin player you can think of courtesy MandoMark http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/3648/mandolinists.html Celtic music MP3 downloads by Cuisle http://www.olonguet.com/sessions.html Steve Smith, of Desert Night Music fame, has a new site at http://desertnight.com/ Chris Moreton biography (UK's number one flatpicker) at http://www.folkwales.org.uk/moreton.htm Wayne Lewis (former Blue Grass Boy) interview, Part 2, courtesy Jim Moss http://www.candlewater.com/interviews/WayneLewis_Part2/ MP3s of "Irish/American bluegrass" from the CD By Any Other Name by Rose In The Heather http://www.shamrockgold.com/rose/music.html MP3s by Django's Cadillac (you can guess the style) http://www.djangoscadillac.com/tracks.htm Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver discography - click on an album for track listing, windows media samples and more info http://www.doylelawson.com/disc.html Doyle's home page http://www.doylelawson.com/ MP3 samples of mandolin music from Dave Berry's CD At The Beach http://tuhker.tripod.com/samples.html Gillian Welch upcoming tour dates http://www.gillianwelch.com/tour/index.htm#tour_info Listen to Bob Dunn and lots of other lap steel (and dobro) players at Brad's Page of Steel http://www.well.com/user/wellvis/dunn.html An appreciationb of John Hartford by Rodger Collins http://www.wwoz.org/html/hartford.html JSP Records have some superb reissues of vintage blues, jazz and old time music at very low prices (check out their Bill Monroe set, for example). Nice graphics on this site but slow loading. Bluegrass audio files at SoundClick Mike Compton site courtesy Evan Reilly http://world.std.com/~ereilly/compton.html Stacy Phillips' dobro and fiddle page includes some sample lessons and tunes http://www.stacyphillips.com/ Baltimore Mandolin Orchestra http://www.baltimoremandolinorchestra.org/ Red Allen discography by Dennis Satterlee http://www.vtbluegrass.org/densat.htm Flatt and Scruggs downloadable MP3s at the the Louisiana Hayride archive http://www.emusic.com/cd/10593/10593493.html Also some other music of interest (Bob Wills, Ricky Skaggs, Osborne Brothers etc) http://www.emusic.com/genres_popular/286/ Manuscripts Department at the Southern Folklife Collection, Chapel Hill, NC http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/ Includes some fascinating on-line recordings at http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc/ncfolk/archive/clip.html Pages about fiddle player Clyde Davenport courtesy Jeff Titon Bill Monroe biography at American Music Archives History of Bean Blossom http://www.beanblossom.com/History/BBHistory.html Lots of pics at http://www.beanblossom.com/Pictures/PicturesIndex.html Bean Blossom bluegrass festival home page http://www.beanblossom.com/index.html Audio files of folk songs (MP3 and RealAudio) courtesy Roger McGuinn http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden/index.html Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra including pic, also MIDI files and MP3s http://www.mindspring.com/~lonzoh/mmo.htm Jorg Strutwolf's music pages include some mando pics and MP3s http://people.freenet.de/j.strutwolf/music.html Also a mando oil painting at http://people.freenet.de/j.strutwolf/hobbies.html Belmando is a new UK-based record label, "enthusiastic about acoustic music with a strong mandolin focus" Look out for Marc Woodward's forthcoming CD! Site also includes an interesting mandotrivia page. http://www.belmando.com/ The Creaking Tree String Quartet - "this ensemble of violin, guitar, mandolin and bass has a distinct sound that lives in the cracks between idioms" Lots of RealAudio files (and a CD) at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/creakingtree Back Porch Ramblers show in SHN format plus some MP3s at http://www.backporchramblers.com/music.shtml Article on Radim Zenkl from Mandolin Magazine http://www.zenkl.com/mmarticle.htm Some great photos of musicians, including Bill Monroe http://members.cox.net/billandleann/jbrian/ Portrait photo of Bill Monroe, 1989, by Jim McGuire http://www.nashvilleportraits.com/NPhtml/BillMonroe.htm And many other photos of bluegrass and country musicians http://www.nashvilleportraits.com/2001/Alphabetical.htm Jesse McReynolds interview part 2, courtesy Jim Moss. Pics of Frank Wakefield Band in Minnesota 2003 http://www.candlewater.com/BLUEGRASS_NEWSLETTER/Mar2003/ Russian Virtuosi Project: domras, mandolins and piano trio - page includes some MP3 sound samples http://www.classicalmusic.spb.ru/ruvirtuosi/ Good pic of Tim O'Brien jamming on his new Giacomel octave mandolin at Telluride with Chris Thile http://www.timobrien.net/photoalbum.cfm Bluegrass discography 1942 - present compiled by Charley Pennell - very thorough! http://www.ibiblio.org/hillwilliam/BGdiscography/index.html Help get Bill Monroe on a US postage stamp! http://www.billmonroestamp.org/ Red Lick Records - huge blues catalogue plus other material including old time music, at very competitive UK prices http://www.redlickrecords.co.uk/main.shtml Mike Marshall and Chris Thile pics courtesy Chris Stone http://www.pbase.com/caya3251/marshall__thile__030403 And a lot of other concert pics of interest http://www.pbase.com/caya3251/concert_photography Alison Stephens, British classical mandolin player http://www.alisonstephens.com/ Download Nickel Creek video to view in RealPlayer. Or use this URL for same link http://tinyurl.com/6sh2 Page about the famous French-Canadian fiddler Louis Beaudoin http://www.dhebert.com/louisbeaudoin/index.html The latest on Bill Monroe's mandolin? http://newstribune.com/stories/110402/ent_1104020007.asp Don Stiernberg sound clips and interview links at http://www.donstiernberg.com/sounds.html On-line program at NPR about the Carter Family, including recordings Rags, Breakdowns, Stomps & Blues - vintage mandolin music (1927-38) on Document Records Roots and Branches: Forty Years of the New Lost City Ramblers http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/7-2/nlcr_1.htm Pics of Frank Wakefield courtesy Rodd Keith http://community.webshots.com/album/63560568izgmrs Louisville Mandolin Orchestra http://www.lmo.org/ Pics of Backstreet's tour of Scotland at http://www.rightonbackstreet.com/scot.htm And visit the home page of this fine North Carolina band http://www.rightonbackstreet.com/backhome.htm Picture gallery at Carlo Aonzo's site http://www.aonzo.com/Gallery/gallery.htm MP3s of Belle Monroe and her Brewglass Boys http://www.brewglassboys.com/music.html Bluegrass MP3s from the Dry River Boys http://www.dryriverboys.com/music.html The Hot Club of San Francisco has a nice selection of MP3s of Django style material - go to http://www.hcsf.com/ and click on the Audio/Visual link MP3s of fine songs by Mark "Brink" Brinkman http://www.brinksongs.com/AudioClips.html Neil Gladd - classical mandolinist and composer http://www.neilgladd.com/ Interesting interview with Laurie Lewis, reprinted from Women In Bluegrass http://www.laurielewis.com/interview.html MP3s of the Ho'Down Quartet http://www.hodownquartet.com/music.html What's new at Tut Taylor's site (the flatpickin' dobro man) http://bellsouthpwp.net/g/u/guild80/tut/tutnews.html Tut Taylor's story about Bill Monroe's mandolin case http://bellsouthpwp.net/g/u/guild80/tut/tutstory.html RealAudio clips of Simon Mayor's playing at his site http://212.67.202.53/~simonmayor/smRA.htm Pics of John Paul Jones, of Led Zeppelin, with triple-necker by Andy Manson http://www.zeppinhood.net/museum/photoalbm/jpj/ http://pyzeppelin.free.fr/tripleneck.html Responses from CoMando Guests Of the Week (CGOWs) - this is wonderful stuff! Particular thanks to Glenn Bradford as well as to CGOWs http://www.co-mando.com/resources/CGOW/index.htm See for example Mike Compton's response. Some classic bluegrass musicians documented at the All Music guide - see links on their Bill Monroe page Sad news of the death of Buzz Busby The Buzz Busby story - now at http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/cover/2000/cover1208.html The Denver Mandolin Orchestra's 8-String Harvest offers weekly MP3s of the orchestra's playing http://www.denvermandolin.com/ The latest on Bill Monroe's mandolin Bill Monroe bio at http://www.bellenet.com/monroebill.html Bill Monroe bio at Yahoo http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=product&id=1927000514&clink=dmmu.artist&a=b Early Bill Monroe history http://www.roughstock.com/history/bgrass.html Benny Thomasson home page now at http://www.petimarpress.com/bennyhom.htm - one of the greatest of the Texas fiddle stylists Adam Steffey interview http://player.gibson.com/oct02/steffey.html Blue Grass Boys - great website courtsesy Stewart Evans documenting in detail the musicians who played with Bill Monroe over the years http://doodah.net/bgb/ Bulletin board at Tim O'Brien's site (page includes info about his Nugget bouzouki) http://timobrien.net/bb_threads.cfm Emory Lester article in Mandolin Magazine http://www.mandolinmagazine.com/articles/lester.html And Emory Lester's own site at http://www.emorylester.com/ Sound files from The Rocky Road CD by Michael Kerry http://www.michaelkerry.com/music.htm The Bill Monroe Foundation includes details of the Rosine Project http://www.billmonroefoundation.com/ Tom Rozum interview on Laurie Lewis's site http://www.laurielewis.com/tomrozum/bio.html Laurie's home page http://www.laurielewis.com/ Some interesting Jesse McReynolds interviews and lots of other great stuff courtesy Jim Moss http://www.candlewater.com/BLUEGRASS_NEWSLETTER/Nov2002/ John Reischman's home page http://www.festival.bc.ca/corvus/johnr/index.html Richard Smith, National Guitar Fingerstyle Champion 2001 http://www.richardsmithmusic.com/ The Sound of Bill - mp3 examples of Bill Monroe's mandolin playing http://www.thesoundofbill.150m.com/index.htm Deep Divin' Dan recordings have released a CD of a live concert from 1985 with Vassar Clements. Lots of pics on this site plus sound clips (though long downloads if you are not using broadband) MandoLoar Quartet http://www.mandoloarquartet.com/ Article on Nickel Creek at USA Today Another Nickel Creek feature http://www.cmt.com/news/feat/ncreek.082102.jhtml Commendation of Mike Compton by the State of Mississippi Page on Bill Monroe with pics and useful links http://www.geocities.com/hamo_2000/bm.htm Excellent Bill Monroe discography at MusicMoz open music project. Home page of MusicMoz directory http://musicmoz.org/ Good links to bluegrass artists' sites - click on the links in the list of performers on this page for the Thomas Point Beach Festival http://thomaspointbeach.com/bluegrass.html Whew! Lots more Jethro sound files (MP3) to download, thanks to Robin Sutliff http://c2t.mde.k12.ms.us/jethro/ Audio files from Joe Cravens' Camptown CD at http://joecraven.e-sites.net/joeslrm.html Home page http://joecraven.e-sites.net/ Excellent David Grisman interview http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=2593 Yank Rachell 1910-1997 http://www.io.com/~tbone1/blues/bios/yank.html And T-Bone's Blues Page with other blues bios and information http://www.io.com/~tbone1/blues/ In Memoriam page for Alan Lomax, who died on 19th July 2002 http://www.alan-lomax.com/about_inmemoriam.html Lomax main site at http://www.alan-lomax.com/ More Alan Lomax links at About.com Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra info courtesy Lon Hendricks http://www.mindspring.com/~lonzoh/ Green Linnet Celtic music record label - lots of info about artists and plenty of streaming audio http://www.greenlinnet.com/ Arnie Solomon's mandolin page has some pics of classic Gibson mandolins http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Stage/1171/mandolins.html His home page has details of his career http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Stage/1171/ John Hartford site includes articles in memory of John and Marie, fiddle music, discographies and music catalog, as well as old time fiddle links http://www.johnhartford.com/ Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at the Smithsonian http://www.folklife.si.edu/CFCH/coll.htm#rinzler Pearl Sivetts, Missouri fiddler - site has some interesting tunes in streaming RealAudio http://www.sonic.net/~mdrayton/pearl.html Gordon Titcomb's site includes interesting photos of a variety of well-known musicians over the years http://www.gordontitcomb.com/index.html Annapolis Bluegrass Coalition band site has a chain of links to Gibson F5 pics http://www.gibsonf5.com/F5_Page.htm and old pics of Reno and Smiley http://www.gibsonf5.com/Reno_Smiley1.htm Home page http://www.gibsonf5.com/ The Swing Geezers' site has a couple of streaming audio files http://www.swinggeezers.com/geezers.htm Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes by Jeff Todd Titon, includes CD of 26 rare recordings http://www.uky.edu/UniversityPress/books/kytunes.htm Interesting page about David Grisman at SF Gate site, and some good links http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/derk/ Providence Mandolin Orchestra http://www.mandolin-orchestra.org/ David Grier's site has some music downloads from his recordings in RealAudio and WAV formats http://www.davidgrier.com/music.htm Hawks and Owls Old Time Music site has free downloads in streaming audio, including mando tracks http://www.hawksandowls.com/Original_Tunes.htm Dan Crary's home page http://www.dancrary.com/ Free stuff includes guitar music and an MP3 of Thunderation http://www.dancrary.com/freestuff.html Dick Gaughan, influential Celtic musician, has a website at http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/main.html This includes a lot of Dick's song lyrics at http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/songs/index.html John Relph plays fiddle music on the mandolin http://idiot-dog.com/relph/ The Dillards classic recordings from the 1960s, Back Porch Bluegrass and Live - Almost! now available again on a single CD. Sam Bush discography (looks pretty comprehensive, but no mention of Poor Richard's Almanac) at http://sambush.com/disco.html And visit the home page for more info about Sam's current activities http://www.sambush.com The Olde Michigan Ruffwater Stringband - interesting lineup http://www.ruffwater.com/ Interview with Richard Greene, courtesy Jim Moss (and great pic of Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys c 1966) http://www.candlewater.com/interviews/story009a.html And Jim Moss's photo gallery http://www.mossware.com/photolist.html MP3 files of lessons with Jethro Burns, with many thanks to Jim Nikora, Mike Stangeland and Rob Coleman - not to mention Jethro! http://www.robcoleman.com/jethro/default.htm Printable jewel case inserts for Jethro lessons CDs (see previous item) - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Thanks to Rick Jones for these! http://www.robandcat.com/jethro/JewelCase.pdf Jethro Burns interview in Come For To Sing magazine 1984, courtesy Tony Drehfal and Mike Stangeland at CoMando Part 1 and Part 2 Lots of info about Clarence White at http://www.urban.ne.jp/home/koa7/byrds.htm CD of San Francisco Festival of the Mandolins CD 2001 http://www.slavonicweb.org/artists/mandocd.htm GraceNote - "the world's largest music database" includes links to purchase new and second-hand CDs http://www.cddb.com/ Tony Williamson and the Williamson Brothers Band Still Light of the Evening CD page has RealAudio track clips http://www.mapleshaderecords.com/reviews/08952.html RealAudio tracks by Red Allen and Frank Wakefield at http://www.folkways.si.edu/40127.htm Atlanta Mandolin Society now at http://www.atlantamandolinsociety.com/ Lots of great pics from Johnny Gimble's scrapbook at http://www.johnnygimble.com/scrapbook/ Johnny Gimble's World of Texas Swing home page http://www.johnnygimble.com/ Skip Gorman plays and teaches bluegrass mandolin http://www.skipgorman.com/sg_w_mando.cfm Old style mandolin recording http://www.skipgorman.com/sg_discDetail.cfm?rid=7 Home page http://www.skipgorman.com/index.cfm Homer and Jethro site including biographical notes http://userpages.aug.com/albink/handj.htm Some pics from the 70s, including Bill Monroe, Buck White, John Duffey and Buzz Busby, courtesy Dan Shipp http://members.home.net/dshipp/mandopix.htm Sound clips from Roger Landes' Dragon Reels recording http://www.celticmusic.com/roger_landes/dragon_reels.shtml Hammered dulcimer session tunes in RealAudio at http://www.dulcimers.com/evartmusic.shtml Seattle Mandolin Orchestra http://www.scn.org/seattlemandolin/ Charlie Louvin's home page http://www.charlielouvinbros.com/main.htm Includes page on the Louvin Brothers http://www.charlielouvinbros.com/bros.htm The John Duffey Page at the DC Bluegrass Union site http://www.dcbu.org/john_duffey_page.htm DCBU home page http://www.dcbu.org/ Info about future video release of AcuTab all-star concert http://www.acutabsessions.com/video/ Frank Wakefield pics plus link to film Adventures in Bluegrass II http://www.rentalfilm.com/rv12/ Jacaranda CD by jazz mandolinist Michael Lampert (also interesting pic of a Schwab solid body electric mando) http://www.sojournerrecords.net/ Mandolin player Don Grieser and Red Mesa Records home page http://homepage.mac.com/dgrieser/index.html The official Bill Monroe website http://www.billmonroe.com/ The Rockabilly Hall of Fame ("the most popular rockabilly site on the Internet") is at http://www.rockabillyhall.com/ They have a page on guitar player Grady Martin (who died recently) and bassist Bob Moore http://www.rockabillyhall.com/BobGradyFC.html There's more on Grady Martin at http://www.nashvillesound.net/gradymartin.htm And a page on Bob Moore at http://www.nashvillesound.net/ Document Records - superb blues, boogie woogie, jazz and cajun catalog plus some folk and vintage country, at bargain (UK) prices http://www.document-records.com/ CoMando Sessions Volume 3 double CD! http://homepage.mac.com/dgrieser/csv3cd.html Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange has lots of album reviews http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/reviews.htm Steve Smith's Desert Night Music page - new recording includes "the chamber sounds of mandolin quartet" http://www.zianet.com/desertnite/ Mandolin and bandolim on Acoustic Blend by Judy Handler and Mark Levesque http://home.earthlink.net/~guitarduo/index.html Gillian Welch's official home page http://www.gillianwelch.com/home.html Mike Marshall's new URL http://www.mikemarshall.net/ Links to Ricky Skaggs Pics of Roland White in concert, courtesy Chuck Rice http://www.chuckrice.com/ Profile of Bill Monroe What has happened to Bill Monroe's mandolin? http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/04/04478453.shtml Kate Wolf website, maintained by her family http://www.katewolf.com/ Mark O'Connor's site - includes a fiddle forum http://www.markoconnor.com/ Arlo Guthrie site - includes lots of his song lyrics http://www.arlo.net/ Frank Wakefield's album Blues Stay Away From Me is now available freshly remastered to CD! http://kingtet.com/wakefield.htm St Louis newspaper article about Norman Blake http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2001-05-02/music.html Thoughts from Chris Thile about mandolin playing http://www.nickelcreek.com/scatterbrained.html Lee's Pickin' Barn (Wes Lee's site) a lot of mando interest - he is the 2001 Merlefest Mandolin champion http://www.leespickinbarn.com/ Red Allen discography at http://www.twochordjones.com/reddisc.asp Update on the childhood home of Bill Monroe http://www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/kentucky/3041206.htm Old Hat Records - some interesting old-timey releases http://www.oldhatrecords.com/html/releases.html Music For Little People - includes instruments for children and suitable recordings, including folk, country and blues http://musicforlittlepeople.com/ Bob Dylan Musical Roots and Influences Pages - quite a number of links to old time music http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/elstongunn/index.html The Hot Frittatas - Northern California's newest ensemble for European musette style dance music. A trio of accordion, mandolin/fiddle and guitar http://www.hotfrittatas.com/index.html Smithsonian Folkways Recordings for the best of Folkways http://web2.si.edu/folkways/ Links to lots of performers at http://www.downhome.com/links.html Crosscut Records - for those who like traditional bluegrass this is the real stuff! http://www.crosscutrecords.com/ Bill Monroe in Real Audio recorded 7/12/80 at Great Gorge Vernon Valley, NJ. http://sugarmegs.com/ShugaShack/BillMonroe/index.htm Andy Statman's home page at the Secret Museum of the Air - also lots of archived roots music of all sorts http://www.megasaver.com/main.html Carter Family discography and links http://www.slipcue.com/music/country/countryartists/carterfamily.html Chris Thile checks out a new Brock mandolin http://members.home.net/gregmaass/thile.html Ryman Tribute to Bill Monroe - lots of artists, lots of pics http://www.techpublishing.com/monroe/index.html The Jazz Mandolin Project - official website of this band http://www.jazzmandolinproject.com/main.html Mandolin and Japan album to be released 6th March 2001 Orrin Star offers lessons on guitar, mandolin and banjo http://flatpick.com/ostar/index2.html#Lessons Sam Bush discography http://userweb.nashville.com/~wendell.norman/samdisc.htm and links http://userweb.nashville.com/~wendell.norman/samlinks.htm Sam Bush home page http://www.sambush.com/index.html Review of Don Stiernberg concert Washington Post article about Wayne Henderson http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11438-2001Jan2.html The official Jim and Jesse website http://www.jimandjesse.com/ The Murphy Method home page http://www.murphymethod.com/ with links to teaching videos. Includes mandolin videos by David McLaughlin and Murphy Henry at http://www.murphymethod.com/mandolin.html ) and Red Henry's mandolin CD http://www.murphymethod.com/red.html John Moore's music page, with RealPlayer tracks from his CDs (click on CDs) http://www.johnmoore4music.com/music.htm David Grier's site http://www.davidgrier.com/ Nickel Creek website (with Chris Thile) http://www.nickelcreek.com/ Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum site http://www.laurielewis.com/ The MacRae Brothers http://www.macraebrothers.com/ R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders http://www.timshome.com/css/default.htm O Brother Where Art Thou? official site http://www.obrothermusic.com/ Clips from O Brother (including concert music videos with Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch and others) at http://www.broadcast.com/o_brother/ Or go to http://studio.go.com/movies/obrother/ Johnny Staats site http://www.johnnystaats.com/ Frank Wakefield bluegrass film http://rentalfilm.com/rv1/001_FWY2K_0_b2.html Excellent article on Clarence White, with contributions from many name players Can also be found at http://www.guitar.com (a huge guitar site) RealAudio and MP3 from the first five tunes on The Swing Sessions by John Parrott and Don Stiernberg http://www.cronynrecords.com/ Sierra Records http://www.sierra-records.com/ Click on Catalog for some recordings of great interest to bluegrass and country music fans Frank Wakefield and Ricky Skaggs interviews at UK North West Bluegrass News http://www.nwbn.freeserve.co.uk/nl-00-12/nl-00-12.htm CoMando artists page http://www.co-mando.com/artists/index.cfm E-mail group for Hot Rize fans http://www.egroups.com/group/HotRize Lots of links about Tim O'Brien http://www.nashphil.com/links/tim.html Another Tim O'Brien site (Tim's personal pages) http://www.timobrien.net/ Radim Zenkl, mandolinist extraordinaire, has a site at http://www.zenkl.com/ Pix of Simon Mayor at Elderly Instruments (courtesy Jim Coon) http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=89237&a=9995634 Darol Anger's website, well worth a visit, lots of good stuff http://www.darolanger.com/links.html Sam Bush and the Del McCoury Band on Prairie Home Companion http://phc.mpr.org/performances/20001111/index.shtml CD and video reviews at Flatpick.com http://www.flatpick.com/Pages/News_And_Reviews/Reviews/Review.php Review of Clarence White, 33 Guitar Instrumentals CD New book on Bill Monroe http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f00/ewing.html Wold Wide Wax - a source for classic vinyl http://www.worldwidewax.com/ Folk Music Index - an index to recorded resources by Jane Keefer. Brilliant listing of songs and tunes, including bluegrass sources http://folkindex.mse.jhu.edu/ Another page and links about Bill Monroe http://www.banjo.com/Profiles/BillMonroe.html Piece about Mike Compton, also some useful links http://www.twangzine.com/art/art-compton.html The very basic rudiments of a new website for Andy Statman are up! http://www.citizenkafka.com/andy/ List of former Bluegrass Boys (with Bill Monroe) http://www.beanblossom.com/History/BlueGrassBoys/BlueGrassBoys.html Robin Bullock's home page http://www.flatpicker.com/bullock/ Great site for researching artists and recordings http://allmusic.com/ Nile's Hokkanen's mando workshop in Chicago 10/26/00 (photos courtesy of Jim Coon) http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=89237&a=9651279 Modern Mandolin Quartet http://www.modernmandolinquartet.com/ Chris Emerson, mandolin player with a bluegrass background, featured on Votive Records http://www.votiverecords.com/ Gemm Search for new and second-hand recordings (including LPs) - great resource! http://www2.gemm.com/ Second-hand records also at http://www.secondspin.com/index.cfm Niles and Debbie Hokkanen's Scandinavian and other roots music duo Nordika http://communities.msn.com/Nordika Don Stiernberg's jazz mandolin CD http://www.bluenightrecords.com/ The Tim Ware Group - "acoustic folk classical fusion music" from the 80s http://www.hyperarts.com/twg/index.html Page about Ralph Stanley http://www.banjo.com/Profiles/RalphStanley.html Electric mandolin resource page and portal site. Lots of links to electric mandolin players http://www.emando.com/ Red Rector biography (summary) http://www.icast.com/artist/1,4003,1050-24700,00.html Bill Monroe biography by Eric W. Penman http://www.gentleman-jim.com/bill.htm Laura Cantrell: great country singer/songwriter! You must listen to her debut CD, Not The Tremblin' Kind on the Spit 'n' Polish label http://www.shoeshine.co.uk/Spit.htm. The Seldom Scene website has some wonderful memories of the late John Duffey http://www.seldomscene.com/DuffeyHome.htm.

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