Michael Holmes: Mandolin Instruction

Folkways Records – CRB 16

Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP
Country: USA & Canada
Released: 1977
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, Country
[Tracklist]
Disk 1
A01 Tune To A "G" (0:13)
A02 Soldier's Joy, Slow (1:25)
A03 Soldier's Joy, Fast (0:43)
A04 Saint Anne's Reel, Slow (1:27)
A05 Saint Anne's Reel, Fast (0:41)
A06 Cripple Creek, Slow (0:44)
A07 Cripple Creek, Fast (0:22)
A08 Old Joe Clark, Slow (1:23)
A09 Old Joe Clark, Fast (0:38)
A10 Turkey In The Straw, Slow (1:16)
A11 Turkey In The Strow, Fast (0:38)
A12 Colored Aristocracy, Slow (1:04)
A13 Colored Aristocracy, Fast (0:44)
A14 East Virginia (0:24)
A15 Will The Circle Be Unbroken (0:48)
B01 Arkansas Traveler, Slow (1:32)
B02 Arkansas Traveler, Fast (0:41)
B03 Girl I Left Behind Me, Slow (1:30)
B04 Girl I Left Behind Me, Fast (0:39)
B05 Devil's Dream, Slow (1:50)
B06 Devil's Dream, Fast (0:46)
B07 Fisher's Hornpipe, Slow (2:04)
B08 Fisher's Hornpipe, Fast (0:39)
B09 Flop Eared Mule, Slow (1:54)
B10 Flop Eared Mule, Fast (0:44)
B11 Lost Indian, Slow (1:23)
B12 Lost Indian, Fast (0:35)
B13 Ragtime Annie, Slow (1:56)
B14 Ragtime Annie, Fast (1:00)
Disk 2
A01 Soldier's Joy (1:37)
A02 Saint Anne's Reel (1:49)
A03 Cripple Creek (0:54)
A04 Old Joe Clark (1:38)
A05 Colored Aristocracy (1:41)
A06 East Virginia (0:43)
A07 Will The Circle Be Unbroken (0:43)
B01 Arkansas Traveler (1:41)
B02 The Girl I Left Behind Me (1:46)
B03 Devil's Dream (1:16)
B04 Fisher's Hornpipe (1:11)
B05 Flop Eared Mule (1:46)
B06 Lost Indian (1:37)
B07 Ragtime Annie (2:21)
B08 Turkey In The Straw (1:46)
[Credits]
Michael Holmes (mandolin) Reed Martin (banjo) Mike Rivers (guitar)
[Notes]
String instrumentalist Michael Holmes provides a recorded tutorial in the playing of the mandolin. The recording is composed of two parts. The first part presents examples of mandolin playing in traditional folk music first slowly and then at performance speed. The second part has Holmes replaying all the songs from the first part and joined by Reed Martin (banjo) and Mike Rivers (guitar). The extensive liner notes provide information of buying and tuning a mandolin and musical notation for the 15 songs presented as part of this tutorial. Holmes dedicated this recording to Pete Seeger, "whose version of "Woody's Rag" was the first tune I ever heard played on the mandolin."