I don't like this song but the video is fascinating for the sheer amount of stereotypes crammed into one five minute segment:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/QQzJqXVq3uI
Good stuff. I've been listening to a lot of Mike Compton lately - he's got an album with a fellow mandolinist named David Long called
Stomp
, and it's all played on the various permutations of the mandolin family. Compton is a Bill Monroe fanatic, and he's pretty much considered the Father of Bluegrass's protege, or at least the player who is closest in style -
Stomp
is Compton and Long imagining the pre-bluegrass music that Monroe would have heard that caused him to develop his sound. Compton is less a popular favorite and more a musician's musician; you won't see many people putting his studio tracks to Youtube, but there are lots of mandolin obsessives who film him.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/26gmpXsd7I0