Live: Duets

Chris Thile, Mike Marshall - Live: Duets

Live: Duets
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Artist: Chris Thile, Mike Marshall
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Music Label: Sugarhill
Soundtracks:
  1. Shoulda Seen It Comin'
  2. Byron's
  3. Carpathian Mt. Breakdown
  4. I'd Go Back If I Could
  5. The Only Way Out
  6. Hualalai
  7. J.S. Bach Dm Gigue (From Solo Violin Partita #2)
  8. Joy Ride In A Toy Car/Hey Ho
  9. 'Til Dawn
  10. Sedi Donka (Trad. Bulgarian)
  11. Tanja

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Free Music Review: Mandolin Monsters Mow Us Down
Hit: 5 Stars

I had the good fortune to see Masters Thile and Marshall two weeks ago where they had this sparkling disc on sale. I don't know how many might curiously seek out their rare live duet performances or their recordings because of Chris Thile's massive success and exposure (for a contemporary bluegrass musician) as one of the leaders of "Nickel Creek". But I know that at the concert were several packs of young women who seemed thrilled at first, then a little restless that young master Thile wasn't going to break out into "The Lighthouse" or "When in Rome".

It has long been known that Chris Thile was evolving into the undisputed master of the mandolin (I would argue pushing, finally catching and now, perhaps surpassing Mike Marshall.) Although Nickel Creek has the good looks and catchy tunes, there's no fluff to their music, and Chris Thile's musicianship has been described as a "Force of Nature with a Flatpick". If you don't know who Mike Marshall is, you should. He joined the David Grisman Quintette while a teenager after winning every mandolin contest in Florida. Grisman said that it was a little odd being blown away every night on stage by someone playing his own instrument, but at least it was his music. Mike has branched off in the two decades since, playing about every kind of music that can be performed on mandolin - Brazilian Choros, Classical (with his Modern Mandolin Quartet), Acoustic Jazz with Montreaux and his partner Darol Anger, Americana and Bluegrass with Psychograss and Newgrange, Edgar Meyer and Bela Fleck. To be concise: I don't think ANYONE has EVER played mandolin better than these two men do right now.

Because of their many other gigs they get to get together infrequently, but I think their kindred spirit and mutual abilities compel them to play mandolin duets. I think they would do it whether we got to listen or not. Mercifully, we get to listen.

What they play is incredible, but it's not "Nickel Creek" and it's not "Bill Monroe" either. The tunes are their originals, except for an occasional Bach Violin Partita. (The Gigue from the 2nd solo partita on this recording, although Mike has written a second part for mandocello. "I wasn't going to just sit here while Chris played..." he said at the concert.) They played Bulgarian breakdowns and Hawaii-inspired melodies. Like their previous recording "Into the Cauldron", they mix beautiful ballads and joyous instrumentals with speed-demon barn burners with technique and speed that is rarely reached by musicians with names other than "Itzhak Perlman" or "Eric Johnson". Although this is a live recording, it's not just a "live" version of "Into the Cauldron". The only "repeat" I see is "Hey Ho!", which is tacked on as a medley at the end of the new and boisterous "Joy Ride In A Toy Car", and hearing the vim and vigor that the live crowd produces in their playing is electric.

One final word - many of the "super virtuosos" play music that is so incredibly difficult that live performances walk a fine line between a mistep that would be the musical equivalent of an Olympic Ice Skater completing a triple jump or falling on their butt. Despite the denseness of the music and the speed at which it is executed, I have never seen or heard Chris or Mike fall. We are not worthy.

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