Great Article!

Image via Wikipedia Bill Graham has written a great little piece for The Mandolin Cafe about Ray Jackson... the source for the mandolin riffs on Rod Stewart's "Maggie May". The article was influenced by a conversation with Sam Bush.

Many guitarists take up mandolin to bring something fresh to sessions and the stage, Bush said, and they often get to the heart and soul of a song more directly than a more accomplished mandolin player would.

"Take Maggie May by Rod Stewart," he said, "we heard that in the van today on the way here from the hotel. I said 'that has got to be the most well known mandolin solo there is.' Because we've been hearing it since what, the early 70s."

The piece is titled "The Man With The World's Most-Heard Mandolin Solo" and hit the site just today.