I heard a story in the title so here it is with the excellent guitar by Jim Movement with contact ....hope you enjoy...... The Fisherman and the Wave (Lyrics) Hush little child go back to sleep Daddy will be back real soon Hush little child go…

A mando improv for Pete Cosey, who left this week. For the improvFriday "blues" theme. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Cosey

A mando improv for Doc Watson, who left this week. For the improvFriday event "blues" theme. http://www.docsguitar.com/

Colab with my buddy multi-instrumentalist Jim Goodin. Jim sent me his improv oud track and I played some slide mandolin over that.

I thought it would be fitting to post this today, on Memorial Day, as a tribute to my friend William Easley, as well as all who have fought and died in wars, American or otherwise. Sometime back in the 60's William (Billy from here on) heard…

Another cut from the 1988 cassette tape of a live performance by Scartaglen on the NPR show Mountain stage. This time some tunes from County Kerry. Kirk Lynch- Uilleann pipes and whistle. Becky Pringle- Fiddle. Mike Dugger- Fiddle and guitar…

Another Live performance with former band mates in Scartaglen back in 1988 on the NPR show Mountain Stage. This time a piece of Gaelic mouth music followed by 3 reels. Maybe the most complex arrangement of a set of tunes that we ever did.

Maybe I missed a career scoring for no budget spaghetti westerns, because this is what this reminds me of. Done live a couple weeks ago with the Taylor and a floor full of toys and loopers.

Solo acoustic finger picking thing I've been working on for a while. Sometime around 1968 I started studying with Mr. George Bennett who taught me the rudiments of finger picking. Later when we played some gigs together he also taught me the rudiments…