Fish Scales at Floyd Fest

It’s been a slow week here at the Fiddle and Creel. Rivers are blown out and we’ve busy doing a bunch of none Bluegrass or fly fishing related things. Extra work, t-ball games that sort of thing. So to fill the void in our lives, here’s a good video of Tony and Dawg playing one [...]

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Freaky Fiddle Friday – Christian Howes

This week’s edition of Freaky Fiddle Friday features a Columbus native, Christian Howes playing with a truly great guitarist Robin Ford. Howes called us 5 or 6 years ago about him sitting in with the Wagoneers but we never could get the scheduling figured out, at the time he was living in NY but was [...]

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Freakin Freaky Fiddle Friday

This is not Bluegrass. Nope, no Bluegrass here. Ain’t no part of nuthin. Strength in What? Huh? Its Freaking Freaky Fiddle Friday.

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Tony Rice Workshop in Roanoke VA

    Just announced today, the Ultimate Guitar Strummit, in Roanoke Virginia featuring workshops by Tony and Wyatt Rice as well as Josh Williams, and John Miller. Sounds like a good time. I do think saying Tony has never participated in a workshop environment this intense is a bit of a stretch, but whatever it [...]

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New Photos of Crusher?

I found some cool photos of David Grisman’s Loar on the Mandolin Archive. I’m not sure if these are new or not, but I think they are new to the archive at least. Last time I saw Dawg play I think he just had electrical tape over the logo. Since then it looks like he [...]

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The coolest archtop guitar ever, maybe?

Courtesy of www.tgpwebzine.com Jacques-André Dupont has an interesting interview with John Monteleone, one of the truly great American luthiers. Maybe its the fact that I’m a mandolin player, but I really dig the look of this guitar. If it sounds as good as it looks, then it is AMAZING!

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