Light and Whimsy From Andy Statman

I was plumb wore out from a weekend full of cyberjabber about 50 Shades Of Gray and the heap of inflated expectations piled on a little, mid-month holiday (that'd be Valentine's Day) when I stumbled across this. Like some rubbernecker at the scene of a terrible accident, I had to see.

I was pleasantly surprised. Not at Andy Statman’s astonishing technique and tone – those are givens in the work of this wonderful mandolinist – but at the lightness and whimsy that characterize this tune, which Statman wrote.

Here’s Andy Statman with – fasten yer seat belts – “The Whup Of Love”.

BTW, the album this comes from – “Bluegrass Mountain Style”– is a superior compilation of 80s-vintage bluegrass, with far more permutations than the title suggests.