I've been following Kottke for years. Back in my guitar playin' days I had a 12 string and used to try to imitate what I could. Felt like I was playing wearing oven mitts.

The fiddle player I'd like to hear in that dream scenario would be Mike Marshall. He was 17 or so the first time I heard him play and had just won the national Bluegrass fiddle championship.

Bela Fleck has an album of duets called Double Time which includes Darol Anger, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Grisman, Mike Marshall, Edgar Meyer, Tony Rice and Ricky Skaggs.

There is also a Sony release called Uncommon Ritual that has Edgar Meyer (bass) Bela Fleck and Mike Marshall.

Whenever Bela Fleck comes to town, about half the tickets get sold to the students a Cleveland Institute of Music and the music departments at Oberlin, Kenyon, Hiram and Baldwin Wallace. I'm told when he plays NYC one show will sell out completely just from Julliard.



>Charles,
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>>Oh my lord what a concert ! Great pictures.
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>It was and thanks.
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>>I am also a big Austin Lounge Lizards fan (their bluegrass covers of Pink Floyd are classic in their own right )
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>I'd never heard of them before I got down here, but know two of your foreigners have said you like them too. I didn't realize they were known more than 50 miles from here.
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>The best "cover" I've heard was from Telluride (my sister and brother-in-law are there now and I'm envious) is titled "Purple Hay" by "Jim Bob Hendrick", a take off on "Purple Haze" it's a hoot.
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>I stumbled across a Moody Bluegrass CD a couple of years ago, and a lot of those songs actually made really good bluegrass covers.
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>>When I lived in the Bay Area in the 70s and 80s Bela Fleck was, of course, the young prodigy who had just won all the bluegrass banjo stuff. You would see him and Mike Marshall and Daryl Anger, Tony Rice, Rob Pederson etc all over the place and those latter four would be staples of the various David Grisman quintets and quartets that made Dawg music what is was. Seeing them with Stephan Grapelli, Sven Amundsen, and Jerry Garcia were definitely some of the best musical experiences I've ever had. Credit the amazing Great America Music Hall for a lot the combinations.
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>>There are recordings of the David Grisman Quintet live at GAMH with Stephan Grapelli. All Grisman albums worth hunting down. When I saw the Flecktones at the Beacon Theater in Manhatten about ten years about Grisman opened for them.
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>I'll have to look for more of these guys. I've got one Grisman CD and one Garcia/Grisman.
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>You know who else I'd love to see play together: Bela Fleck, Sam Bush and Leo Kottke and some great fiddler. Bush was playing with Lyle Lovett here and I managed to get a front row seat for that show. Kottke plays the Paramount theater every couple of years I saw him one night there, and him with Mike Gordon from Phish at ACL last fall.