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Bartlett Offers Rollicking Folk Dance Music

NPR
Published December 24, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

Marika Partridge reviews the mandolin dance sounds of Sam Bartlett. His self-produced, instrumental CD Evil Diane features some of America's best unknown acoustic players, fiddlers and pipers. Indiana native Bartlett is a prolific writer, often composing his reels and jigs from the road on his mandolin.

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