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NEW ALUBM TO BE RELEASED SUMMER '08
Franklin Delano Wakefield
was born on June 26, 1934 in Emory Gap, Tennessee. Frank began to play
harmonica and guitar as a young child. Meanwhile, Bill Monroe and the
Blue Grass Boys were creating a new, exciting brand of country music built
around tight, high-pitched harmony singing, Earl Scruggss new style
of banjo picking, and the intense, blues-influenced mandolin style created
by bandleaderMonroe. It was during this time
in the early history of bluegrass music when a teenaged Frank Wakefield,
living in Dayton, Ohio, got his first mandolin. Soon, Frank
began working with Red Allen, the start of
a musical collaboration which
was to last many years. They organized a bluegrass band with Noah Crase
on banjo, which performed in the Dayton area for some time. Frank later
moved to Detroit, where he played with Jimmy Martin for about a year,
until he left Detroit to organize his own band. At this time, Frank was
beginning to write and record original bluegrass material,
most notably the classic instrumental New Camptown Races.
In the late
1950s, Frank worked briefly with the Stanley Brothers. In the early
1960s, Frank moved to Washington D.C. , where he was joined again
by Red Allen.The two performed in clubs and on WDON Radio in Wheaton,
Maryland, and recorded a classic LP for Folkways. During the mid-to-late
1960's, Frank was a member of the Greenbriar Boys, playing several times
at Carnegie Hall.
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Don't Lie to Me
2003
BUY
CD
$12.00
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Frank Wakefield, Mandolin Bill
Keith, Banjo John Glik, Fiddle Victoria
McMullen, Bass
Jack Leiderman, Guitar Plus Many Guest Artists
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El Nino * Don't Lie to Me * Early Morning Train * I Thought I Heard You
Calling My Name *
Miss Marsha * My Aching Heart * Banks of the Ohio * Two Lonely Hearts
* Bluegrass Mandolin *
White Silver Sands * Daughter of Midnight * Danny Boy
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Midnight on the Mandolin
2000
BUY
CD
$12.00
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Frank Wakefield , Mandolin Mark
Delaney, Banjo John Glik, Fiddle Victoria
McMullen, Bass
Jack Leiderman, Guitar Plus Many Guest Artists
Midnight on the MandolinFaded Memory *
Charl * The Convict and the Child *
Bluegrass Band No. 1 * Alone and Forgotten * The Greek * Affection * Hovanna
* Faded Love *
Darlin Cindy * Countin on David
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The Kitchen Tapes on Acoustic Disc
BUY CD
$13.50
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That Was Now
on Rosewood Records
BUY
CD
$13.50
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Introduction to Bluegrass Mandolin
BUY DVD
$60.00
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1 
Intermediate Bluegrass
Mandolin
BUY DVD
$60.00
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