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Mark O'Connor's "In the Cluster Blues" with Chris Thile, Frank Vignola, Bryan Sutton and Byron House
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Chris Thile met Mark O'Connor for the first time when Chris was 12 at the NAMM Show in L.A. Several years later Mark coincidentally moved to San Diego where Chris grew up just as Chris was moving to Nashville where Mark had spent the last 15 years blazing a new trail for acoustic musicians to follow there. In the summer of 2006 both Mark and Chris moved to New York City and ran into each other at a bluegrass jam at a bar in Greenwich Village just weeks after arriving. Both men were happy to see each other, moving to the same city on the exact same month was once again a nice coincidence.

Chris had already recorded on Mark's "Thirty-Year Retrospective," a ground breaking album project recorded in Nashville at Ingram Hall, Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt with fellow bluegrass virtuosos Bryan Sutton and Byron House on bass. One of the festivals they decided to book together to promote the recording was "Rocky Grass" in Colorado. 'In the Cluster Blues' was performed and captured on recording for their "Jam Session" CD at this festival. Both Mark, Chris along with some of their acoustic musician friends from Mark's Hot Swing group explored the stratosphere of the acoustic modern blues as far as any musicians have gone on their instruments.

Mark says that "Chris Thile is the greatest mandolin player in history. I should know, because I know first hand how hard it is to do it. To me, he has recorded the greatest slow-tempo mandolin improvised solo on record; 'One Winter's Night,' and he has recorded the greatest mandolin solo of all time on this version of 'In the Cluster Blues' - the one on this video!"

'One Winter's Night' featuring Mark and Chris can be on Mark's hit holiday CD "An Appalachian Christmas." 'In The Cluster Blues' can be heard on their recording "Jam Session." Both on OMAC Records.

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