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...music which the New Lost City Ramblers play is based almost entirely on field recordings made by commercial record companies and the Library of Congress during the period between 1925 and 1935. The Ramblers play almost the entire range of American folk instruments (mouth bow, harmonica, autoharp, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar), in the styles used by such groups as Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, Byrd Moore and his Hot Shots, and Dr. Humphrey Bate and the Possum Hunters, to name but a few of the groups from which the Ramblers derive their repertoire. They play old breakdowns, sing ballads...
Mike Seeger was virtually raised on Library of Congress recordings since his parents were helping to compile the archives. By his late teens, Mike had become engrossed in the playing techniques of rural artists and he soon was playing guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo and autoharp. He has since recorded solo albums for Vanguard and Folkways and most recently for Arhoolie...
...would leave, the Dead would do a few more songs and then introduce the New Riders: Dave Torbert on bass: Mickey Hart (also from the Dead) on drums: David Nelson (who looks like a refugee from the Band) on mandolin and acoustic guitar: Garcia on pedal steel guitar; and that little fellow. John "Marmaduke" Dawson, composer lyricist and "prime mover" for the New Riders, a prince of acoustic guitarists and lead vocalists...
...Selon Pli-meaning "fold along the fold"-is based on three poems by Mallarme and was begun in the late 1950s. With piano, guitar and mandolin, it also enlists a soprano soloist and a full orchestra, runs 60 minutes, and is easily Boulez's most ambitious composition to date, outstripping even his 1955 Le Marteait sans Maitre. Severely serial, the work begins with a crash and a delicate wash of impressionism, a mixture of Debussy and Webern. Much of it glitters with the percussive polka-dotting of pointillism; all of it is abstract, moving in tiers of timbres, skeletal...
...claim that a musician's ability to play Blue Grass can be measured by the number of years he has been away from Bill Monroe. It would be a little easier for others to imitate his music if they had his famous Gibson P-5 mandolin; Bill bought it 25 years ago from a barber shop in Miami for $125. He has been offered $20,000 for it, but it will stay with him. There are few if any at all which can match it for clarity and volume-"It makes the sound I want to play," says Bill...