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Mandolin’ Brothers
Album: Moon Road
Label: Fortune
Tracks: 6
Website: http://www.mandolinbrothersband.com

This six-track well produced and impressively packaged EP from the Mandolin’ Brothers benefits enormously from the input of several experienced Austin based musicians and creates a finished product that fairs well against some of the continental European offerings you come across. This Italian band have been sporadically active with their releases over the last decade but the ’Moon Road’ EP recorded and launched in 2010 shows what they can be capable of with a little assistance.

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The six-piece band led by "Jimmy" Ragazzon doesn’t appear to have any brotherly family links on the surface and a mandolin only appears on two of the tracks but you might as well have a memorable country name if you’re going to try and crack that market. As a band they produce a tight close knit sound that leaves you in little doubt what they’re trying to achieve and what direction they’re heading, with it definitely being more Texas than Turin. However you’re always going to be in fine hands by enlisting the assistance of Reckless Kelly’s Cody Braun.

All six tracks are Mandolin Brothers’ originals with Ragazzon having a writing input on each one with perhaps the two stand out songs being the slower numbers ’49 Years’ and ’Moon Road’ where the reflective song writing subjects match the tempo of the tunes. ’49 Years’ with its fiddle interludes ponders the advancing years of the character who seeks solace with their guitar while ’Moon Road’ uses lap steel effectively in a song dedicated to a ’lovely’ daughter. These two songs slot in as number’s two and three on the EP, sandwiched by two more upbeat tracks that have a country rock tinge to them. ’Hold Me’ opens the album with a driving feel to it while ’Old Rock and Roll’ has a sound that encompasses the title. The final two tracks, ’Dr Dreams’ and ’Another Kind’, are where the mandolin appears with the latter being your archetype war protest song, a subject not always tackled in mainstream country music.

While this collection of songs doesn’t warrant delving into the band’s back catalogue, the credibility given to the short recording by the Austin based musicians will certainly add some relevance and create further interest should the Mandolin’ Brothers develop this project with a full length release some time in the future.

David Hughes
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Mandolin’ Brothers - Moon Road - Studiottanta - Fortuna Records CD+DVD

Ok, the roots would be those of Voghera, but is Pavia that indicates the geographic area where a whole world is teeming with musicians who are in love with the Anglo-American music and who play this music as well: from the Lowlands (loyal "customers" of this blog) to Southlands through dozens of other groups and soloists of which I reported quickly in the Post dedicated to the tribute to the music of John Lennon. But our friends are a bit the originators of this whole group: in business since 1979, baptized as the Mandolin’ Brothers by the good Fabio Treves, even though there was no mandolin at the beginning (but it would come) and there were not even brothers. Over time they have built a reputation as one of the best Italian bands (but sing in English) in the style found at the borderline between country, blues, roots and "good music".

The discography is not realy copious: three records between 2001 and 2009 (plus this Moon Road) and a collaboration between the singer and harmonica player Jimmy Ragazzon and guitarist (Treves Blues Band area) Maurizio "Gnola" Glielmo entitled Blues Ballads and Songs. For the rest many concerts and a lot of passion.

This album is the result of a fortunate coincidence. In 2009, they are chosen to represent Italy at the International Blues Challenge which is held every year in Memphis, Tennessee (along with Francesco Piu) and the DVD that is included with this package with this self-explanatory title "U.S. 2010" is a brief amateur account (less than 20 minutes) of what happened in Memphis on the occasion - but there are also images (and music related) that lead us in the studio of Merel Bregante in Austin, Texas where the album was recorded.

And here we come to the album, a mini-album of 6 songs to be precise, but that is worth as if it was a whole disc that I had forgotten to include among the most interesting things about this 2010 just finished. But then, at the instigation of a friend of mine who told me "you could talk about it in your Blog" and why not, here we are, albeit the slight delay. Buscadero and other newspapers as well as another blogs wrote about it already, but another voice never hurts, and after all it’s my Blog and I can talk about the music I like!

If the name Merel Bregante rings a bell it is because this guy was the drummer of the Loggins & Messina back in the ’70s, then when he hung sticks up and moved to, and settled down in that Austin (his wife is Sarah Pierce, an excellent singer with a curriculum of six albums that I recommend without distinction - in the sense that not being easy to find, whatever you come across will do since they are all good). There in Austin Bregante has opened a recording studio and it’s there where the Mandolin’ Brothers and a handful of valiant American musicians have recorded this album: maybe not high-sounding names, but first-class in terms of roots music, Cindy Cashdollar, the finest dobro player and collaborator with Van Morrison (but also Dylan, Ryan Adams and Dave Alvin), Cody Braun of Reckless Kelly, Lynn Daniel, Kenny Grimes, Doug Hudson and Carl Loschiavo.

The end result is excellent: ranging from midtempo country-rock of the delightful Hold Me featuring Cashdollar’s dobro as the sly voice of Ragazzon pilots the various soloist interventions of of the musicians does not make regret the great interpreters of this tradition, from the old Nitty Gritty to the Poco, Pure Prairie League, and above all, at least to my ears, the big Amazing Rhythm Aces of Russell Smith with whom the voice of Jimmy Ragazzon for genetic reasons (twins separated at birth?) has more than one point of contact. The instrumental tail end with the two guitarists of the group (including Marco Rovino that is the mandolin’ brother) duetting with Cashdollar and the other musicians does not deserve to be faded. 49 Years, a beautiful ballad embellished by the fiddle of Cody Braun that fits perfectly with the steel and with the beautiful evocative voice of Ragazzon, every bit as good as the best of American production in this genre.

And what about the excellent Moon Road, another slow song led by the distinctive sound of the Riccardo Maccabruni’s accordion while the guitars, slide, lap steel and electric brush a series of short and powerful at the limits of sound poetry, small delicate watercolors framed yet again by the excellent interpretation of the good Ragazzon. Old Rock And Roll, as the title implies, is a tasty song full of energy that also recalls the old Loggins and Messina, Maccabruni this time moves to an intriguing piano, while the guitar of the guest Kenny Grimes, divides the solo interventions with the harmonica of Ragazzon. Dr.Dreams is the other song that reminded me very much of Russell Smith and his Amazing Rhythm Aces who were a bit the Little Feat of the country- roots, beautiful vocal harmonies (and here there are), sound solutions consistently brilliant (and also here we are) and excellent songs (which never hurts), and the mandolin on this track is remarkable! Another Kind closes, another great song with accordion and mandolin in highlight, more acoustic than the previous, definitely more country flavored, but still nice.

At this point we can also mention the rhythm section which consists of Daniele Negro on drums and Giuseppe Barreca on bass, the other guitarist Paolo Canevari and the added mandolin player Bruno De Faveri.

However the music (and critical) is beautiful because they are various, then everyone sees (and we hear) what he/she wants, the important thing is that the music is beautiful here and there is in abundance. For more news www.mandolinbrothersband.com

We have a video to complete the work and then don’t say that I haven’t not warned you!
QSB (These Are Good).

Bruno Conti


	from: zambosplace.blogspot.com Friday, January 7th 2011 by M a u r o Z a m b e l l i n i

	Mandolin’ Brothers > Moon Road Italy still remains a colony with regard to the rock n’ roll - even if one of those colonies which enjoy special status with its partial independence and complete autonomy. Over the years hundreds of bands have grown and even if referring unambiguously to the American rock by copying styles, imitating attitudes and using the same language, they have developed their own autonomy recreating the same feeling with an unmistakable spirit of Italy by inputting innocence, vibrancy and enthusiasm. Qualities that have partially make up for a technique not always excellent and an understandable lack of malice in shaping a language that is not natural to us Latins. Beyond the difficulties an Italian wave has arisen that managed to be appreciated also abroad, especially in the "mother country" America. There are plenty of examples, just read the names that fill the tribute to the songs of the Boss For You to get an idea of the phenomenon. Some of these names managed to get into American clubs and radio stations - not small time when you think that our radio stations (99% real crap) do not offer even a bit of promotion and clubs with music are very few. So, it’s a pleasure to find a band from the Oltrep� Pavese (an area that until not long ago was only famous for its sparkling wines has now become a place of a very lively rock and blues scene) that has been invited to Memphis, to that sacred temple of rock n’ roll, and that has appeared as a guest to play at the International Blues Challenge. It means that the passion, dedication, sacrifice and perseverance were finally rewarded and an American dream has finally come true. The authors of this miracle are called Mandolin’ Brothers although to be honest there is only one mandolin (Marco Rovino) and the sound is what you would expect from a combination that is somewhere between blues and country, with large openings toward the old and classic rock n’ roll, that thing that everyone calls "Americana" and a number of names that are a kind of passè partout to the promised land, that is, Dylan, the Little Feat, Steve Earle and Van Morrison. It’s roots-rock, deriving from American roots and not from those from Pavia but this is the limit when belonging to a colony, even when enjoying a "special status". The Mandolin’ Brothers are not new on the scene - they’ve been around for a while, and have a valuable discography behind them in which the mature Still Got Dreams (2008) sticks out, an album that has catapulted them onto specialized columns and groovy 30 Lives! with which they’ve celebrated their 30 years of militancy. In Memphis they’ve played at BB.King’s Blues Club on Beale Street and at the New Daisy Theater on Beale Street and in Austin they’ve recorded this new mini CD entitled Moon Road. Six songs recorded under the supervision of Merel Bregante (producer) and with the participation of guests such as the fiddler Cody Braun, the bassist Lynn Daniel, the guitarist Kenny Grimes, the same good Bregante and Cindy Cashdollar, lap-steel guitar and dobro with Dylan, Dave Alvin and Ryan Adams. They’ve attached a DVD to the CD. It tells their journey up the Mississippi, on Highways 61 and 49, among the holy places of music - they are their children after all. All of it is collected in a beautiful digipak, enriched by a superb photographic and graphic work (calling it superb is an understatement), an evidence of love for this world of blues and rock n’ roll lived up to the smallest detail. If the visual part alone is able to take you to those lands and to that atmosphere, the music is no exception. Recorded in a technically flawless way, with an audio performance derived from a highly professional product, the music of Moon Road is an eloquent summary of the moods and passions of the Mandolin’ Brothers. If compared to previous work, there is a prevalence of acoustic sounds and country. We pass from the sparkling vivacity of Hold Me, a track that with its interweaving guitar (Paolo Canevari, Marco Rovino, Cindy Cashdollar) would not feel out of place in the repertoire of the Flying Burrito Brothers, to the more intimate 49 Years - where the singer Jimmy Ragazzon and fiddler Cody Braun recreate a pastoral landscape of Appalachia; and then from the borderline charm of Moon Road, embellished by Riccardo Maccabruni’s accordion, to the ruffled juke joint-like Old Rock & Roll; We continue with the entwined mandolin / acoustic guitar and slide of Dr.Dreams, a successful match between folk and country-blues, to end with the deep, intense and sincere anti-militarism of Another Kind, the result of Jimmy Ragazzon’s sober writing - an author matured on bread and Dylan. Six songs and a DVD entitled Moon Road, clouds, roads, dust and a loads of passion from one of the most lively formations of the American music Italian way. Mauro Zambellini Gennaio 2011 Published by Zambo Labels: Italy, Mandolin’ Brothers

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Mandolin’ Brothers & Friends
Moon Road
[Studiottanta Fortuna records 2010 CD + DVD]

A passionate testimony of the "American tour" of the Mandolin’ Brothers, Moon Road is primarily an act of love for themselves and their own story, proudly arrived in January 2010 in a tour that saw them take part in the International Blues Challenge performing in two historical theaters in Memphis.

A prize to their career (and to their devotion), with which this "little" Italian rock band has become an absolute reference point for the "Americana" sound in our country (starting from the blues, they have tried to express all aspects of the American music). Hence the idea to attach to the six tracks of Ep a short documentary entitled "USA 2010" in which the group lays down its overseas adventure with simple images, only to remember that they’ve been there, that they’ve traveled those roads.

It is a tribute that is good for Mandolin’ Brothers and might even convince the most skeptical about the quality of the band, now enlarged permanently with Marco Rovino on guitar and mandolin and with the increasingly important presence of Riccardo Maccabruni on piano, organ and accordion. If they managed to break the wall of mistrust even playing at home of the "champions" Americans, why shouldn’t they get the same results in Italy, where they currently have few rivals in sifting the roots sound called roots rock. Moon Road, even though a quick reference document, collects twenty-five minutes and six episodes that synthesize this growth. Recorded in the spring of 2009 in the studios of the famous producer Merel Bregante in Austin, is an overview of the expertise and tastes of Mandolin’ Brothers, now masters of a language, even better than many overseas colleagues.

There are ballads that have heart and soul of The Band, as the pacifist Another Kind (text translated into Italian in the book
. . . because certain words just ought to be explained well), others are roots colored (the melancholy Dr. Dreams, shades of a Border Song of 49 Years), before giving vent to guitars (Old Rock & Roll), although the works of art are called Hold Me and Moon Road. The first is a lively country rock that breathes deeply of the Texas air, enriched by the dobro of Cindy Cashdollar (Dylan, Dave Alvin, Ryan Adams and many others in her resume), while the gorgeous title track has an almost soulful core where the voice of Jimmy Ragazzon shows the charm of his hoarseness and drags us in the great open spaces of America. The lap steel of the above mentioned Cashdollar still stands out, along with the fiddle of Cody Braun (Reckless Kelly), guests (the list is longer) brought in the recording studio by Bregante and that yet do not completely remove the spotlight from the main players: Moon Road signed Mandolin’ Brothers and should hence be justifiably proud.
(Fabio Cerbone)

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www.zicazic.com MANDOLIN’ BROTHERS Ecrit par Fred Delforge lundi, 07 mars 2011 30 Lives! (Studiottanta − Fortuna Records − Distribuzione Venus − 2009) 73’ 48 Durèe − 16 Titres Moon Road (Studiottanta − Fortuna Records − Distribuzione Venus − 2010) 25’40 Durèe − 6 Titres + DVD 15’ environ http://www.mandolinbrothersband.com http://www.myspace.com/mandolinbrothersband
	Aussi loin que l’on puisse remonter dans le temps, c’est toujours à l’année 2009 que nous ramènent les premières traces des Mandolin’ Brothers, lorsque les deux pères du projet se produisaient en duo acoustique de country blues et accompagnaient le Treves Blues Band. Deux années plus tard, le chanteur et guitariste Jimmy Ragazzon et son acolyte guitariste Paolo Canevari s’associaient avec un bassiste et un batteur et emmenaient leur groupe vers le blues rock dont ils reprenaient les standards.
Les années passant, le combo italien connaîtra son lot de changements de line up mais aussi de répertoires et c’est en accueillant des claviers, un accordéon ou encore une mandoline que le duo fondateur en arrivera à proposer une musique où les racines nord-américaines sont omniprésentes mais où l’apport latin n’est jamais laissé sur la touche, preuve s’il en fallait encore que le blues n’est pas un genre figé et que quand on est un groupe qui s’est produit aux côtés d’Andy J. Forest, de Popa Chubby, d’Eric Bibb ou encore de Nine Below Zero avec toujours le même succès, il est possible de lui apporter chaque jour un peu de sa propre personnalité. Si les Mandolin’ Brothers ont traversé avec un réel succès trois décennies de carrière et qu’ils ont été désignés pour représenter l’Italie et le Rootsway Roots’n’Blues Food Festival de Parme à l’International Blues Challenge de Memphis en 2010, ils n’en ont pas pour autant inondé les bacs de leurs enregistrement puisqu’en tout et pour tout, ils n’en sont qu’à leur quatrième effort, les deux derniers présentés conjointement en ces pages présentant des enregistrements live immortalisés durant les deux dernières années, le premier, " 30 Lives! " à Pavie à l’occasion du trentième anniversaire du groupe et le second, " Moon Road ", lors de la virée américaine de la formation avec à la clef des témoignages filmés des prestations données à Memphis et six pièces enregistrées en studio à Austin, Texas, en compagnie d’amis et d’invités. De quoi pénétrer tout entier dans l’univers très particulier d’un groupe où les lap steel et autres accordéons font plutôt bon ménage et où l’énergie prime parfois sur le côté conventionnel de la partition, surtout quand le jet lag s’invite à la table des musiciens. Aussi séduisants et musicalement impeccables sur leurs propres compositions comme "Stompin’ Blues", "Still Got Dreams", "Went To See The Poet" ou encore "Carton Box" que convaincants sur des covers de la trempe d’un " You Gotta Move " ou d’un " Troubles No More ", les Mandolin’ Brothers démontrent par l’exemple qu’ils sont de véritables artistes taillés pour la scène mais prouvent également au travers de deux superbes digipack que proposer des albums de qualité est un exercice pour lequel ils montrent de réelles aptitudes. Reste maintenant à franchir les Alpes et à venir se produire jusque dans l’hexagone . . .

November 2010

Like a river in flood.
Like the river Po, from the Becca bridge to the Mississippi, passing through Parma and the Rootsway Festival to claim the deserved ticket to Memphis, Tennessee, and then off to Texas.
This is how one could describe the last three years of the Mandolin’ Brothers; after a long period of recording inactivity, they’ve exploded showing how often the apparent lethargy may prove useful.
At first glance it may seem a very American story, but I do also feel the reality of our Padana Valley (nothing to do with the fools in green shirts) in the music of the Mandolin’. There is, in my opinion, the great river - the Po - with its tales of passion, opportunities and ghosts, with its dirt roads and small railroads. With the rural aspect of a land, perhaps, very similar to that of the overseas. After that half-masterpiece of "Still Got Dreams" and the confirmation of their skills captured in "30 Lives!" comes this new product that just by looking at the graphic work, promises excellence. CD / DVD with really beautiful graphics, an attention to detail - starting from photographs - worthy of a major label as a confirmation of just how much the boys (?) believe in their work, very well produced here by Merel Bregante and Massimo Visentin. There are only 6 songs in the CD, but maybe it’s better this way. We are forced to listen to overly long CDs too often; do you remember how beautiful LP used to be?
Maybe there was space for one or two more, if we really want to be picky. But it is the quality of the songs from the very first listen that is surprising (actually a confirmation). An initial one-two punch to knock down even the most experienced American band: it begins with Hold Me, with the outstanding Cindy Cashdollar on dobro reminding Mike Auldridge when he ignited the Seldom Scene concerts. The perfect song to open an album. Follows 49 Years and I immediately wondered whether John Prine was present in the sessions, hidden in the body of Jimmy Ragazzon. Beautiful, with the fiddle of Cody Braun sad to the right point. A Tex-Mex song vaguely Cooder-like, hands in a Paolo Canevari to duet with the lap steel of Cindy Cashdollar and the accordion of "Macca" Maccabruni in Moon Road. Mild pace with Jimmy and his voice increasingly scathing to take us towards the swamp of the fourth track: Old Rock & Roll, where Little Feat join up the Lynyrd in the Golden Era. The mandolin of Marco Rovino opens Dr. Dreams, perhaps the least incisive, but with the chorus in full view and a solo of Canevari in his style, few notes but laid down with the heart. Closes Another Kind, a beautiful anti-war ballad signed Jimmy Ragazzon, a "boy" with his head on his shoulders and Dylan in his heart.
Excellent the idea to put the text also in Italian, if our politicians read a bit more, it would be a good thing. Many distinguished guests, but it is them who are the absolute heroes of this product, of this musical journey made of concerts and humility. And in addition to the above mentioned Ragazzon, Canevari, and Maccabruni, we cannot forget the rhythm section of Joe Barreca and Daniele Negro, mandolin and the guitar of Bruno De Faveri and (and photographs . . . and what photograhps) of Bruno De Faveri and Renato Cifarelli, helped by friends Marco Rovino and Stefano Pesci ( with Maccabruni also with the Folk’s Wagon ).
After three consecutive plays, I put the CD down and I moved on to the DVD, short but very nice. The testimony of a trip, well deserved I’d say, in the States, shot in Memphis, where our heroes have represented Italy at the International Blues Challenge and then in Austin during the recording of the CD. Another big surprise from these guys that I can claim to have the good fortune to have as friends, no small thing. A purchase that, of course, I recommend to everyone. Christmas is coming with its Cd gifts peeping out only to be forgotten by Boxing Day. Better to go sure with the Mandolin’ Brothers.

Antonio Boschi

gennaio 2011

. . . from the column : "Fuoritema"
by R i c c a r d o S a n t a n g e l o
riccardo@amadeusonline.net

A road to the moon
The Mandolin’ Brothers have started enjoying it. Left in limbo of our local music for decades, in recent years they’ve been getting loads of satisfaction, the last one belongs to the recording of their fourth album in Austin, Texas, under the supervision of Merel Bregante. And if the previous album (Still Got Dreams) smelled heavily of States,
	Moon Road carries the dust of the lonely roads from the overseas, soaking inextricably of styles of American music. Six pieces,(all original) where country-rock sound with shades of blues rule the roost with the unique voice of Jimmy Ragazzon supported by the band
(inspired as ever), each of which represents a gift of small emotion. In support of Mandolin’ Brothers are various guests, such as Cody Braun on fiddle and Cindy Cashdollar on dobro, that accentuate even further the disc’s U.S flavor. In support of the mini-album there is a DVD, where in a brief travelogue, their tour of Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas it is documented; a tour initially set off to play in various clubs where one can appreciate their skill in live version. Moon Road Mandolin’ Brothers Studiottanta-Fortuna Records, SFRC-CD021 cd+dvd, distr. Venus 62-63 fuoritema.indd 63 10-12-2010 10:55:11


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This time the Mandolin’ "have really gone and done it!"

In fact, we may as well bypass the pun. Yes, because after a studio album ("Still Got Dreams") and a critically acclaimed live album ("30 Lives"), here they come, offering a mini-lp with 6 new songs and a DVD (produced by Merel Bregante and Massimo Visentin) entitled Moon Road - Mandolin’ Brothers & friends..

And all with no small time friends, considering we are dealing with well-known American musicians (Merel Bregante, Cindy Cashdollar on dobro, Lynn Daniel, Kenny Grimes, Doug Hudson, Carl Loschiavo, Cody Braun on fiddle) and other home-bred ones like Marco Rovino and Stefano Pesci.

I’ve never heard any Italian group playing so "American", perhaps more American than many U.S. groups that play only as a routine groove.

Beautiful sounds, that sense of "nicotine opaque" from old country road, that never-ending, dull rhythm of a journey; the song writing is excellent as well: only six, but little gems.

The DVD contains the testimony of a trip to the United States, recorded in Memphis where they’ve represented Italy at the International Blues Challenge (held at BB King’s in Memphis) and then in Austin, during the recording of the CD. A dream journey for these local musicians who were wandering between recording studios, sunsets, and stages and roadhouses, with the bewildering feeling of having ended in a movie: exactly what they’ve wanted to interpret for ages.

Well done, guys!

Furio
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message to Jimmy Ragazzon

ciao jimmy..
this sounds great.. i look forward to hearing your music again...i played the live CD over the holidays for friends who said...who is this??
they loved it...best to you and the band.

thanks,
Art Tipaldi
Editor Blues Revue Magazine
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January 2011

message to Paolo Canevari
(FaceBook)

OK, now it’ clear . . .
I apologize. I thought that the ’mandolin brothers’ on the facebook page was a reference for a very famous music store in New York - "Mandolin Brothers". They specialize in acoustic instruments.
Franca gave me two of your CD's - 30 lives and For Real. The band is good man! Guitar tone is excellent. That was the first thing I noticed. You play better ’american’ blues than I do. Nice slide work. I like that you guys get into the ’southern delta’ U.S. thing (Little Feat, Zydeco, etc.).

I have a Warmouth Tele. It’s one of my best instruments. White with a black pickguard. 3 pickups: Gretsch, Strat and Tele. I’m sure there’s a photo of it somewhere here(?)

See you estate!

Ciao, - KL (Ken Lasaine)

January 2011

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Name: Merel Bregante ( Homepage )
Country: USA Date: Thu Dec 30 17:36:16 2010
Comment: OK, I just have to say how proud of all of you that I am. It was an honor for me to do this record.. A complete joy. I know how hard it was for you to get here and how hard you worked while in the studio. The respect you are now being given has been deserved for a long time. Complimenti a tutti voi. Your grappa brother...M

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Name: Lynn Daniel
Country: USA Date: Fri Dec 10 19:37:09 2010
Comment: I just finished listening to the new record (Moon Road) and watching the DVD. What a beautiful project. Thank you so much for allowing me to be a small part of your wonderful work. It is always good to spend time with friends, but even better when the opportunity arises to work together on an outstanding product. This is one I look forward to enjoying for many, many years. Thank you, my friends. Be well.

December 2010

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Jimmy Ragazzon plays harmonica in "Mr. Slim’s Blues" in Eric Hanke’s "Factory Man" album.
	"I just got Moon Road today, I love it! I like the songs, the style, the production, congratulations men! Tina and I also really like the dvd, I think its a really cool thing to get to know the band a little bit and documents a really cool happening with the band." Eric Hanke December 2010