Ownself Blues
2009
BUY CD
$13.50

NEW ALBUM AVAILABLE NOW!
Frank Wakefield -mandolin with:
Michael Cleveland - fiddle
Mike Munford - banjo
Jordan Tice - lead guitar
Audie Blaylock - rhythm guitar
Darrell Muller - bass

Guests: Taylor Baker, Nate Leath, & Jessie Baker

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Ownself Blues listen(mp3)* Saratoga Ride * Flying Strings * This is for Bill *
Beethoven: Theme and Variations in D *The Runaway Train *
The Old Cat Sneezed * New Camptown Races *
Bach: Bourée from Lute Suite in E minor * Double Stoppin' the Blues *
Sabbatical *Rockville Special *Mandolin Solo # 2

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 Scruggs’s 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
1950’s, Frank worked briefly with the Stanley Brothers. In the early 1960’s, 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.
More Patuxent Albums by Frank Wakefield:


Don't Lie to Me
2003
BUY CD
$12.00
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

Midnight on the Mandolin
2000
BUY CD
$12.00

 

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
Other Frank Wakefield products in Stock:

The Kitchen Tapes on Acoustic Disc
BUY CD
$13.50


That Was Now
on Rosewood Records
BUY CD
$13.50


Introduction to Bluegrass Mandolin
BUY DVD
$60.00

Topics Covered:
Chords And Tremolo
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Red River Valley
Ragtime Annie
Boil Dem Cabbage Down
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
I'll Fly Away
In the Pines


Intermediate Bluegrass
Mandolin
BUY DVD
$60.00

Topics Covered:
Chords
Crosspicking
Fishers Hornpipe
Blackberry Blossom
Devils Dream
Monroe Kickoffs
Uncle Pen
Catnip
New Camptown Races
East Tennessee Blues
Tennessee Wagoner
Billy in the Lowground
I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome
Blue Moon of Kenyucky
Rose of Old Kentucky
Roanoke
Wheel Hoss
Bluesgrass Stomp
Arkansas Traveler
Bile Them Cabbage Down
Rag Time Annie
Lonesome Road Blues
Pike County Breakdown
Solders Joy
Lonesome Indian
Rawhide
Waltz In Bluegrass
Bluegrass Band No 1
Black Mountain Rag