Bill Monroe's Mandolin/2015

Bill Monroe's Mandolin/2015. This is another re-cut song, and one of my personal favourites. I had also recorded this on my first Album, There's A Better Way, with Clem O'Brien and Dick Gladney, and it must be said, in a version which has garnered much air-play on US Radio. Once again, I had harboured an ambition to re-record this epic story about Bill Monroe's Gibson Mandolin, and to tell it more in the way that I would narrate a tall tale, although this is a true story. I first read about the Auction in the Tennessean Newspaper. The result you can judge here, complete with 'talking-bit' intro. [Note: it's a sad thing to say that all these years on, Bill's Gibson F-5 is still mired in controversy. The funds used to purchase it for the Country Music Hall Of Fame turned out to be the proceeds of fraud, and so the Lloyd Loar is considered to be "a ward-of-court", at least until the legalities are sorted out. ]