This song has been played everyone who is anyone (and also by everyone who is noone) in Bluegrass and Country Music. It comes originally from Johnny Bond, who also composed Hot Rod Lincoln. (http://www.scaruffi.com/history/country.html).

I Wonder Where You Are Tonight

A bluegrass classic from JIm and Jesse McReynolds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_&_Jesse).

I'll Never Love Anybody But You

"Don't Go Down In The Mines, Dad," as it was first known, originated in England as a late Victorian parlor ballad.... Though it was not particularly popular among British miners, it took firm hold in mining communities of the U. S. The text was published in the United Mine Workers Journal (February 9, 1911), the entire piece was copyrighted by Blind Andy Jenkins, the singing newspaper vendor from Atlanta, Georgia, in 1926, and finally Vernon Dalhart crooned the newly copyrighted version into thousands of homes (including the Watson's) on a Victor record.
RALPH RINZLER, liner notes for Doc Watson & Son" (1965)

Dream Of A Miner's Child

El Cumbanchero

by Jacob Do Bandolim: with Barry Kornhauser - Guitar, Jeff Berman - percussion, Bob Green - mandolin, violin, bass, mandocello

Bob Green

Noitas Cariocas

This is the only instrumental that i know of which takes a position on the battle of the sexes.

Growling Old Man - Cackling Old Woman

Jazz Standard by Ray Noble - done here as a mandolin/bass duet with Larry Cohen

Bluegrass and Other Traditional Music

Cherokee

By the great Klezmer clarinetist Dave Tarras - I learned it from Andy Statman

Mazel Tov

Mandolin Virtuoso Dave Apollon adapted these well-known Paganini pieces to his 1920s vaudeville act.

Paganini Stomp

Written Harley Allen, son of Red Allen, I learned this while playing with Harley in his band with Mike Lilly in the early 80s. Picking often with Red at his home in Dayton that year was my bluegrass pinnacle!

Chain Gang

The Butterfly

An original tune with roots in both New England and Texas fiddling.

Walt's Waltz

Tobin's Favorite/Scatter The Mud

O'carolan was an itinerant blind Irish harpist from 200 years ago. he left a large body of timeless tunes.

O'Carolan's Draught

Charlie Parker used well-known standards as bedrock for his bepop heads, so this could be called "a medley of one song". Recorded with Lisa in my living room, high atop the basement on west 72nd st.

How High The Moon/Ornithology With Lisa Asher

Daddy Don't go To The Mines Today with Jen Larson and Lisa Asher

Mandolin Comparison Blues.WAV

August 2020: Inspired by the work of the "Green Olive Collective". 

Please see https://www.toursinenglish.com/

I was noodling on the mandolin before their presentation started, and this is the result.

Green Olives

Bob Green plays mandolin, violin, bass, and guitar in a wide variety of settings including Bluegrass, Klezmer, Irish and Rock bands, musical theater, classical mandolin ensembles, and more. Please see: http://bobgreen.org

Each performance by Bob Green weaves together the musical strands of 20 years as a performing artist. With traditional musics of the Americas as a foundation, Bob's interests and experience also include Celtic, Jazz and Classical music.

Based in New York City, he performs and records on violin, mandolin, guitars and bass in a wide range of settings, including musical theater, string and country bands, Irish and Klezmer groups, folk and bluegrass festivals, and the New York Mandolin Orchestra.

Theater credits include Frank McCourt's The Irish and How They Got That Way at the Irish Repertory Theater, Prophets and Heroes with Vanessa Redgrave, and musical direction of Buffalo Gals at the Bennington (VT) Center for the Arts. He received a 1995 Meet The Composer Award for the modern dance composition Face to Face.

Music has taken him to 11 countries and 23 states, including a tour of Japan with composer/banjoist Akira Satake who he assisted with a recently released album on Alula Records. His most recent overseas trip was to Jordan and Israel, as accompanist to folksinger/harpman Saul Broudy. He performed at Carnegie Hall with the Clef Club Orchestra, at Lincoln Center with Hazel Dickens, at the Lone Star RoadHouse with Shawn Colvin, and has played at Symphony Space, Town Hall, and the Bottom Line.

Before living in New York, he made his home in the Ohio/Kentucky area, working with Harley Allen (Folkways records). Prior to that, he did stints in a variety of New England bluegrass and folk acts, including Raintree (Green Mountain Records), and The Valley Partners (Old Homestead Records).

Audio Magazine called him "... an incredibly versatile mandolinist whose mastery of a number of styles is matched by his infectious enthusiasm."

Bob Green And Company

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