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A 1971 performance of the song on Top of the Pops saw the Faces joined onstage by DJ John Peel, who pretended to play the mandolin. [8] The mandolin player on the actual recording was Ray Jackson of Lindisfarne. The album version of "Maggie May" incorporates a 30-second solo guitar intro, "Henry", composed by Martin Quittenton. [6]
"Maggie May" (or "Maggie Mae") (Roud No. 1757) is a traditional Liverpool folk song about a prostitute who robbed a "homeward bounder", a sailor coming home from a round trip. John Manifold , in his Penguin Australian Song Book , described it as "A foc'sle song of Liverpool origin apparently, but immensely popular among seamen all over the ...
This encourages the use of tremolo (rapid picking of one or more pairs of strings) to create sustained notes or chords. The mandolin's paired strings facilitate this technique: the plectrum (pick) strikes each of a pair of strings alternately, providing a more full and continuous sound than a single string would.
[16] [17] In 2003, Ray Jackson claimed to be the mandolin player on the album, at least for the song "Maggie May." [16] Jackson is the mandolin player from English folk-rock band Lindisfarne. Mason attributes the mandolin playing to Martin Quittenton. [9] The liner notes to Every Picture Tells a Story list Quittenton only as the acoustic guitar ...
Chord Bible is the generic name given to a variety of musical theory publications featuring a large number of chord diagrams for fretted stringed instruments. The subject matter applies exclusively to chordophones , stringed musical instruments capable of playing more than one note at a time.
Andy Irvine was born in St John's Wood, northwest London on 14 June 1942.His mother, Felicia Madge Lessels, was from Wallasey, Merseyside, [note 1] [6] [7] and his father, Archibald Kennedy Irvine, from Glasgow.
Melbourne E. Bay (February 25, 1913 – May 14, 1997), known professionally as Mel Bay, was an American musician and publisher best known for his series of music education books. His Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords , first published in 1971, remains a bestseller.
The country had what may be its first Mandolin festival in June 2015, and has at least one Mandolin Orchestra. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] One professional musician to use the mandolin is Sumru Ağıryürüyen who is known for singing and playing many styles of music including world music , Klezmer , Turkish folk, Balkan folk, blues, jazz, krautrock ...