Andy Statman - Bluegrass Tracks (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Andy Statman, one of his generation's premier mandolinists and clarinetists, thinks of his compositions and performances as "spontaneous.

American-roots music and personal, prayerful hasidic music, by way of avant-garde jazz." This modest man takes for granted that a performer might embody several worlds in his art, and seems humbled by the fact that his music, like his story, is extraordinary.

Andy's musical journey began early, when he was a child in Queens, not far from his current home in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Born into a family with a long line of cantors and some well-known professional musicians in the family tree, Andy grew up singing hasidic melodies in the afternoon Jewish school his parents sent him to, and listening to show tunes, klezmer, and classics - along with every other variety of music playing within earshot.

Indeed, young Andy had ravenous ears, absorbing the early sounds of rock and roll and the beginnings of the folk revival. But after his brother brought home a vintage record by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Andy became obsessed with bluegrass, which he would tune into via shortwave radio from West Virginia. He sent away for a method booklet, and picked up the guitar and banjo on his own. Eventually he would discover his love for the mandolin. (scroll for more)

TRACKLIST

1. Andy Statman - Stoney Lonesome
2. Andy Statman - Sycamore Street
3. Andy Statman - Two Pants Suit
4. Andy Statman - If You Only Knew
5. Andy Statman - Bile 'em Cabbage Down
6. Andy Statman - Brown County Breakdown
7. Andy Statman - Blessing
8. Andy Statman - Those Old Early Morning Blues
9. Andy Statman - Charleston Ramble
10. Andy Statman - I Wouldn't Do It
11. Andy Statman - Katy Hill
12. Andy Statman - Starday Hoedown



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