Blues Mandolin & Beyond: Website of Jim Richter
A Tonal Butcher of Stringed Wood
After a short hiatus, the 6th Jim Richter Mandolin Camp for the Rest of Us Featuring Don Julin will comence in 2019! It has been scheduled for July 10 through the 13th at the Grant Street Inn in Bloomington Indiana….
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Hootenanny!, the 2004 concert video of myself and Gordon Bonham at the Crazy Horse Pub in Bloomington, Indiana, has now been released as a video rental on YouTube (for the low price of $1.99). So besides the option of purchasing…
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Jethro Tull is one of my all time favorite rock bands. Ian Anderson and Martin Barre have been very influential in how I conceive of the confluence of light and dark (acoustic & electric; flute & guitar; etc.) in a…
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I have several left over T-Shirts from all 4 years of the camp in the Storefront. These are available for $20 shipping included in the USA. Each year has limited sizes available.
Hello all In the past two years of the current incarnation of the website, I have had 100,000 visits–80,000 of them unique users. During that time I have had 100,000 visits to my tablature page. This bandwidth usage is expensive….
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IT IS BACK, ALIVE & KICKING! Hootenanny!! A Blues and Old-Time Country Pickin’ Party by Gordon Bonham & Jim Richter Originally released on DVD and now out-of-print, Hootenanny! is again available–this time as a $10 instant digital download. Filmed live at the…
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According to recent sales figures, In-Tuition: Mandopoly and In-Tuition: Blues made appearances in the iTunes top 100 blues albums chart for the week of 6/22/2013. Mandopoly was #45 and Blues was #48. These albums have slipped from the iTunes Top…
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Given that many individuals still like CDs (as opposed to purely digital options like my albums Blues and Mandopoly), I now offer a CD sampler of the best cuts from both albums. And as with the two digital only albums:…
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In my ongoing struggle (and I mean struggle) to put myself through a PhD program in counseling psychology, I again beseech mandolin lovers everywhere to consider the purchase of either or both of my recently released albums: Mandopoly and Blues,…
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In-Tuition: Blues & In-Tuition: Mandopoly are now available at iTunes and Amazon. More information on the In-Tuition Albums’ page. Please watch this infomercial/video explanation of the project: