Sep. 7—Historians of bluegrass music say that Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass," bought his famed 1923 Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 mandolin at a barber shop in Florida in the 1940s. But Jerry Ashley, ...
will pluck tangos, rags, marches, polkas and some light European classical from the 1880s-1920s era of the mandolin orchestra craze. “Mandolin orchestras, like brass bands, were extremely popular a ...
Chris Hillman, a founding member of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, is releasing a new album, “Bidin’ My Time.” Here, recounts the story of how Stephen Stills gave him a 1924 Gibson Lloyd ...