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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond cover image

Andrew Bird + Jimbo Mathus

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

CHAPTER

Jimbo's Story of Music

Jimbo's parents bought him a mandolin when he was six years old. He learned hundreds of songs by the age of 12. Jimbo: "I play by ear like Andrew, but coming from a different side" The band plays funerals and family reunions where they set up camp to perform.

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Speaker 3
Now Jimbo, your parents started you out on Mandolin, is that right?
Speaker 2
I started out on Mandolin, you know, and the way I grew up with music is very untrained. I play by ear like Andrew, but coming from a different side, it was just social music. There was no microphones or stages or anything or audience, it would just be the family and the friends, you know, that's the way I grew up. It would be a
Speaker 7
lot of drinking, you know. Not me
Speaker 2
when I was six, but one of my uncles got a little knee-braiding, left his mandolin over at the house, you know, and I guess maybe for a few months he forgot where he had left. By the time he came back to pick it up, I had learned the rudiments and was figuring out I wanted to play with the older guys and gals. And so at that point, they had to buy me a mandolin.
Speaker 3
But your parents weren't musicians, right? It was just a tradition in your family.
Speaker 2
Yeah, they weren't professional musicians, no, not at all, but they were quite good and really just the social reality of music and just doing it for your own entertainment, your own enjoyment. It's like
Speaker 3
a pre-TV lifestyle, something to
Speaker 2
pass the time. Of course, you do play funerals and family reunions, important milestones, you know, that's where we would perform, that's where we would set up camp. And hours and hours and hours of music would pass. And sometimes days, you know, of just playing music, singing music, socializing, and learning these songs and sharing a canon. So I probably knew a couple hundred songs by the time I was 12 years old, you know, just the roots.

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