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Acoustic duet of guitar and mandolin playing traditional music of American, Irish and Scottish origins.
Bill Wooten and Albert Hollan have played in bands together for years, but only recently began to explore the guitar and mandolin as a duet. Carefully choosing tunes that allow the two instruments to complement each other, they strive to combine the best attributes of the two instruments with a simple style that is both pleasing and yet leaves the listener wanting more. Bill Wooten is a skilled multi-instrumentalist, but the guitar is his first choice because it allows him to create a driving rhythm, play a melody, or gently accompany with melodic fingerpicking. Albert Hollan came to the mandolin more recently and is now exploring the deeper, more resonant sounds of the octave mandolin. Together, the guitar and mandolin make lovely duets that are honest and unadorned by electronic processing. This is the music that you wish you could find more often, but usually will only hear live when two musicians sit down together in a quiet place and begin to speak with their instruments.
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Acoustic • Acoustic General
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#9,443 today Peak #12
#3,275 in subgenre Peak #4
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Traditional
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June 08, 2008
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MP3 2.4 MB • 128 kbps • 2:34
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The name Lindisfarne means "Land's Corner." Corner like the Horns of Switzerland, the Gorns of Russia, and the Bournes of France. The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish born Saint Aidan, who had been sent from Iona off the west coast of Scotland to Northumbria at the request of King Oswald around AD 635. It became the base for Christian evangelising in the North of England and also sent a successful mission to Mercia. Monks from the community of Iona settled on the island. Northumberland's patron saint, Saint Cuthbert, was a monk and later Abbot of the monastery, and his miracles and life are recorded by the Venerable Bede. Cuthbert later became Bishop of Lindisfarne. At some point in the early 700s the famous illuminated manuscript known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, an illustrated Latin copy of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, was made probably at Lindisfarne and the artist was possibly Eadfrith, who later became Bishop of Lindisfarne. Sometime in the second half of the tenth century a monk named Aldred added an Anglo-Saxon (Old English) gloss to the Latin text, producing the earliest surviving Old English copies of the Gospels. The Gospels were illustrated in an insular style containing a fusion of Celtic, Germanic and Roman elements; they were probably originally covered with a fine metal case made by a hermit called Billfrith. In A.D. 793 (796 per some authorities), a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the Viking Age. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records:
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