ACUTABTranscribed from the playing of Wayne Benson
This great mandolin book features the work of former IIIrd Tyme Out - and current John Cowan Band - mandolinist Wayne Benson! The book features all of Wayne's mandolin breaks from Bluegrass '95, '96 &'97. This popular series of recordings features a good mix of jam session standards, classic bluegrass instrumentals and recent compositions from some of the hottest young artists in bluegrass music.
Students, players and lovers of bluegrass mandolin at any level can profit from these transcriptions. Beginners will find some very playable breaks for popular tunes while more skilled players can build their repertoire and analyze Wayne's approach in a number of styles and keys. Fiddle tunes, banjo tunes and Bill Monroe mandolin tunes are all represented - all carefully proofed by Wayne for accuracy.
Both standard notation and beamed tab are included along with left hand fingerings and pick direction for tricky passages
Songs from Bluegrass '95 (Pinecastle 1045)
Lochwood
Cruisin'
Goodbye Liza Jane
(Pinecastle 1056)
Red Apple Rag
Clinch Mountain Backstep
Roanoke
Steel Guitar Rag
Black Jack
Tucker
Done Gone
I'll Fly Away
Foggy Mountain Special
Louisville Breakdown
Up On The Blue Ridge
St. Anne's Reel
(Pineacstle 1067)
Carpenter John
Forked Deer
Sally Ann
Fire On The Mountain
Little Rock Getaway
Katy Hill
Wilson's Clog
Lost Indian
Jerusalem Ridge
Jesse James
Bedford's Forest
Night Of The Comet
Eileen's Waltz
IIIrd Tyme Out’s Wayne Benson came to play the mandolin through an act of youthful
defiance. As a teenager, he messed around with his father’s guitar and fiddle,
but the elder Benson held out with his mandolin. Forbidden fruit is sweet.
"He got this little A model, and he wanted me to be interested in music, but he knew if it was pushed on me I probably would reject it, so the mandolin was off limits," Benson remembers. "He said that within 15 minutes [after telling me to leave it alone] he heard me in there playing it. And then he just never told me to quit."
A native of Murfreesboro, Tenn., Benson has been with bluegrass band IIIrd Tyme Out since 1993, when the group released their critically acclaimed third album Grandpa’s Mandolin.. He’s been named the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America’s (SPBGMA) Mandolin Player of the Year for four consecutive years, and IIIrd Tyme Out has won IBMA’s Vocal Group of the Year award a record seven times – more than any other band.
His musical influences are diverse. He started out listening to Ricky Skaggs’ band Boone Creek when he was 15 years old. "That’s when I really knew I wanted to play mandolin, that I liked what I was hearing in that," he says. His father’s old Bill Monroe records suddenly became like a treasure trove for him, because he realized Monroe’s influence on Skaggs. At one point he saw New Grass Revival on the TV program "Austin City Limits" and went out and bought three of their albums the very next day because Sam Bush had bowled him over. His favorite guys for tone, though, are Mike Marshall and David Grisman.