Mandolin Tunes, by John Goodin

Mandolin Tunes

by John Goodin

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Sir Reginald Styles This is such a beautiful collection of tunes and really lovely performances. The mandolin melodies live and breathe and the guitars are perfect. Favorite track: Quarry Hill Road.

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A collection of original tunes for mandolin and guitar, recorded at home in Decorah, Iowa from 2007-2011.

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1.	Ekin Ave. Hornpipe 02:29	buy track
2.	Duettino No. 2 00:50	buy track
3.	1837 Turnpike Road 02:59	buy track
4.	Alice's Garden 02:07	buy track
5.	Hold That Thought 01:46	buy track
6.	May Frost 02:00	buy track
7.	The Wedding Broom 02:43	buy track
8.	Lawnchair Night 02:04	buy track
9.	Hamlet to High Point 01:21	buy track
10.	St. Anthony and the Fishes 03:19	buy track
11.	Woodhaven 02:49	buy track
12.	July 23, 2004 01:47	buy track
13.	Spring Forward 02:24	buy track
14.	Shepherd's Purse 01:53	buy track
15.	Winter Leaves 01:33	buy track
16.	Rocks in the Sun 01:46	buy track
17.	Jaunty Ted 01:00	buy track
18.	Backbone 01:42	buy track
19.	Quarry Hill Road 01:30	buy track
20.	The Beautiful Days 02:24	buy track
21.	Graveyard Owl 02:59	buy track
22.	St. Francis and the Birds 02:11	buy track
23.	Palmer's House 01:34	buy track

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Mandolin Tunes is a collection of 23 tunes originally presented on my So Many Tunes blog from 2007-2011. All tunes were recorded by myself at home, mostly using a Zoom H4 digital recorder. The focus of these recordings is meant to be on the tunes themselves and not the performances, so most tunes feature the melody being played two or three times through in a straightforward manner. A few tracks include harmony parts. Standard notation sheet music for all of the tunes is available on the Some Many Tunes blog.

While I've been fortunate for the last decade to have dozens of my tunes played regularly by my good friends in Contratopia most of these pieces don't quite work as contra dance tunes. They are a little too slow, they have too many sections, or they are a little too classical sounding. Similarly, I have been lucky to have many wonderful mandolin orchestras around the world play and record a number of my compositions over the last 25 years. Some of these tunes may one day be used as the basis for future mandolin orchestra pieces but, at this point, I am content to share them in this format.

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released July 30, 2015

I used several different mandolins including a couple of old Gibson oval hole A models and a beautiful Pomeroy A2 Gibson replica. I used an inexpensive Martin OM and a Taylor dreadnought to play the guitar parts. Playing this CD at loud volume will highlight its humble technical pedigree and may reveal the occasional noise from our neighborhood. Finally, no reverb or other sound processing has been added to the tracks, although I did use a fade out tool on most.

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John Goodin Decorah, Iowa

John Goodin (1951-2021) played guitar and mandolin for decades. He wrote fiddle tunes and pieces for mandolin orchestra, published music books and recorded several CDs. He performed around the country with the contra dance band Contratopia and locally with fiddler Erik Sessions and the Scandinavian-American band Foot-Notes, among others. ... more

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