Less known - unless you follow Compton on Facebook - is his connoisseurship of hand-painted, vintage ties, the classically designed examples from the 1920s-40s (even the ‘50-‘60s) that epitomize the Golden Era style. ![]() That project won a Grammy Award Album of the Year and sold seven million copies, igniting an international renaissance in old-time and bluegrass music. The film’s producer T-Bone Burnett needed that authentic, rural musical style to evoke pure Americana, and so called upon Mike Compton to provide his unique and signature mandolin style and give the Soggy Bottom Boys their rootsy sound. ![]() Chances are you tapped your foot to the melodic but solid mandolin lead weaving through “I’ll Fly Away” in the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou.
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