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Turmoil & Tinfoil is the first full length studio album by American bluegrass musician Billy Strings.Its release follows two collaborations with Don Julin, Rock of Ages and Fiddle Tune X and precedes his second studio album Home.
In 2012, Don Julin, a mandolin player from Traverse City, Michigan, and author of Mandolin for Dummies, asked Strings to join him on a paying gig. The partnership lasted for the next four years. Rolling Stone named Strings one of the Top Ten New Country Artists to Know in 2017. [1]
Strings met a local mandolin player, Don Julin, who asked him to join him for a gig. It would come with a paycheck. With that, he was in, “Fuck yeah, I’m Billy Strings, let’s roll ...
Don Julian (April 7, 1937 – November 6, 1998) [1] was an American rhythm and blues, [2] funk and soul singer, guitarist and songwriter. Most famous for his work as an R&B singer in the 1950s and 1960s, he's also known for composing the soundtrack and songs to the blaxploitation film, Savage! .
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A mandolin (Italian: mandolino, pronounced [mandoˈliːno]; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of eight strings. A variety of string types are used, with steel strings being ...
Ray Jackson, [156] mandolin part of Rod Stewart's Maggie May, Lindisfarne (band) John Paul Jones (United Kingdom), [157] Led Zeppelin, mandolin part of Gallows Pole [158] Bernie Leadon (United States) Jimmy Page (United Kingdom), Led Zeppelin; Mick Ronson, Mott the Hoople, :mandolin part of I Wish I was Your Mother [159]
Mandolin awareness in the United States blossomed in the 1880s, as the instrument became part of a fad that continued into the mid-1920s. [14] [15] According to Clarence L. Partee a publisher in the BMG movement (banjo, mandolin and guitar), the first mandolin made in the United States was made in 1883 or 1884 by Joseph Bohmann, who was an established maker of violins in Chicago. [16]