What
sounds like a small choir of mandolins playing bass lines, chordal accompaniment,
and tremolo melodies is in fact nothing except Evan Marshall all by himself.
Which would not mean much in this Age of the Overdub except for one astounding
fact: Marshall plays all this music live, at once, on one mandolin, with
no overdubs at all.
That's four tiny pairs of strings and one flatpick, plus a stray finger
or ten.
These feats of the impossible are something like what Chet Atkins did on
guitar -- Atkins, in fact, commended Marshall as"one of
the few great musicians of our time."
