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Mike Compton is an American bluegrass mandolin player. In addition to his solo albums and recordings with the Nashville Bluegrass Band and John Hartford, he has been featured as a performer and collaborator on numerous albums by other artists.
Mentored by Bill Monroe, [when?] known as the "Father of Bluegrass Music," Mike Compton is recognized for his interpretation of Monroe's mandolin style. Compton runs an annual Monroe Mandolin Camp in Nashville, Tennessee, where he, along with other instructors, teaches bluegrass mandolin techniques, including foundational skills and advanced aspects of Monroe's playing style.
Simpson had expressed his desire to record a bluegrass album as early as 2017. Both volumes were recorded earlier in 2020 after Simpson had recovered from coronavirus; [5] he and the musicians on the record performed a livestreamed concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on June 5, 2020, as a promise to fans who raised nearly $250,000 for COVID-19 relief.
Davis was raised in Cullman, Alabama, in a musical family.His grandfather J.H. Bailey played banjo and fiddle. In the 1930s, his father Leddell Davis and uncles sang the "brother duets" music style (a forerunner of bluegrass music), and Davis's uncle Cleo Davis was a member of the first incarnation of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys.
Although he makes new arrangements of classical works not intended originally for mandolin, Avital has also added new music to the classical mandolin music base. [4] He found as he travelled around the world that the mandolin was involved with folk music everywhere he went. [4] He used that as a starting point to add to the mandolin's ...
During his teenage years he developed as a banjo and mandolin player, making many trips to Fleadhs (Irish Music Festivals), as well as many weekends in County Clare, where his style was honed, playing regularly with the Russell brothers from Doolin, Noel Hill, Tony Linnane and other great Clare musicians.
Shred guitar players often use electric solid-body guitars from brands such as Charvel, ESP, Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, Jackson, Kiesel/Carvin, Kramer and Schecter. Some shred guitarists use elaborately-shaped models by B.C. Rich or Dean, as well as modern versions of classic-radical designs like Gibson's Flying V and Explorer models.
Besides the music for movies, he was known to play Indian classical music (Hindustani), as well as Arab and Sufi music. [27] Adoption of the mandolin in Carnatic music is recent and involves an electric instrument. U. Srinivas (1969-2014) has, over the last couple of decades, made his version of the mandolin very popular in India and abroad. He ...