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Barry Mitterhoff – Silk City – Vinyl Record
Silk City is a notable album by American mandolinist Barry Mitterhoff, released in 1988 under the Flying Fish label. The album showcases Mitterhoff’s versatility and skill, blending elements of jazz, classical, and folk music. It features a variety of compositions, including adaptations of classical pieces and original works, highlighting the mandolin’s adaptability across genres.
The album features collaborations with several accomplished musicians, including Tony Trischka on banjo, Larry Cohen on bass, and Danny Weiss on guitar. Their contributions enrich the album’s sound, creating a dynamic and engaging listening experience.
Based out of a small town in New Jersey, Barry Mitterhoff is a mandolinist who absolutely refuses to be pigeonholed into one style, despite the ease with which a writer in this sort of database can click on a key that says bluegrass. Of course, like just about every mandolinist around, Mitterhoff got into bluegrass music and has played his share of it. He became closely associated with banjoist Tony Trischka, who helped take that genre just about as far out as it has ever gone, thus forever associating Mitterhoff with the progressive bluegrass movement and even beyond that, the avant-garde bluegrass movement.
He is most certainly being watched by “the bluegrass police,” as described by his fellow mandolinist Jimmy Gaudreau, also not a player who liked to do things the way they are supposed to be done in bluegrass. Mitterhoff has become involved in several different styles that are firmly outside the bluegrass camp, working regularly with a klezmer group and through his good sight-reading abilities becoming drawn into both theater and film music. In the film You’ve Got Mail, it is also a case of “you’ve got Mitterhoff,” as this is one of the Hollywood soundtracks he appears on. And despite whatever connections he has with progressive or avant-garde music of any persuasion, he is also a respected player in the old-time music field, having maintained a long-standing relationship with the wonderful Appalachian singer Hazel Dickens. Meanwhile, he is studying the choro music of Brazil.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic seal
Flying Fish Records FF 472 1988
Track Listing
Silk City
Tall Timber
Denephew’s Delight
Polkas
Asphodel Celebrates the Light
Dvorák
Hell’s Bells
Intermezzo for String Trio
Fiddletune Medley
The Wind That Walks
Wizard of Oz Medley
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