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Mike Marshall, Darol Anger
At Home and on the Range: The Duo Live
Genres: Country, Folk, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Down In The Willow Garden
2. Big Man From Syracuse
3. Vasen Your Seat Belt/The Crossing
4. Shoot The Moon
5. Gator Strut
6. Fiddles Of Doom Medley: Old Dangerfield
7. Fiddles Of Doom Medley: Big Mon
8. In The Pines
9. Hot Nickles
10. Shebag, Shemor
11. Jerusalem Ridge
12. Frogs On Ice

CD Details

All Artists: Mike Marshall, Darol Anger
Title: At Home and on the Range: The Duo Live
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Label: Compass Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2000
Re-Release Date: 2/12/2002
Genres: Country, Folk, Pop, Rock
Styles: Bluegrass, Traditional Folk, Jam Bands, Bluegrass Jam Bands
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 766397433325

Synopsis

Amazon.com

For decades, Mike Marshall and Darol Anger have applied their instrumental chops in all sorts of high-powered acoustic ensembles, both together (in the dazzling late-'70s David Grisman Quintet, the '80s Windham Hill group Montreux, and, more recently, Psychograss, NewGrange, and the jam-oriented Anger/Marshall Band) and separately (Anger's Turtle Island String Quartet and Marshall's Modern Mandolin Quartet). But as this duo set demonstrates, these easygoing virtuosos need no band support to head off on some wild instrumental adventures. Constitutionally eclectic, they travel from Bill Monroe tunes to Ireland (the ever-popular "Shebag, Shemor") and Sweden ("Väsen Your Seat Belt") to Marshall's unclassifiable originals (mandocello funk on "Gator Strut"). The fiddle, mandolin, and guitar work is state of the art, effortlessly swinging and telepathically in sync from nearly a quarter century of making music together. Liner notes by surrealist songwriter Patrick Brayer complete a fine portrait of two musicians at the top of their game. --Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

CD Reviews

The perfect setting for these master musicians

Dai Mcclurg | Seattle, WA United States | 09/14/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Duo is probably the best setting to allow these master musicians to stretch out and fill up the room with their incredible music. I've followed these two gentlemen for 20 years through all of their various projects and collaborations, and this disk is my favorite. I usually think of Mike Marshall as a mandolin god, and his mando talents are well featured here especially on "Big Man From Syracuse", but what amazes me most on this disk is his incredible guitar playing, and his interplay with Darol Anger. Mike's choices of chords are so beautiful, as he adds harmonic depth and interest to a tune, like "Down in the Willow Garden", "In the Pines", and "Vasen your seatbelts/The crossing", that it opens the tune up far more than usual, and gives it so much more feeling. When he returns to the essential basis of the tune, you feel like you are coming home from an amazing odyssey. Darol Anger's fiddle soars so beautifully in the duo, and the range of feelings and sounds he produces are astonishing. I love the way he constructs a solo, by slowly outlining a phrase, and then with such style, playing all over, inside, and around it, before heading out into new territory. This is a brilliant live recording of these masters at the peak of their powers. You will not be disappointed."

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Joseph J. Hoffman | Murrells Inlet, SC United States | 07/24/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Although Anger and Marshall have been making great music for a long time, they are a recent discovery for me. Pleasantly, I discovered them at a summer festival and was immediately impressed with their virtuosity and sense of humor. This CD contains a variety of Americana at it's best.A couple of favorites of mine are "In the Pines" and "Frogs on Ice" If these guys appear in your area, don't miss them. Live performance is better for the soul."