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Article: Mike Compton/David Long; JUST DUET
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- Pittsburgh City Paper
- Article date:
- July 9, 2003
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There's something unnerving about the adoration poured upon Mike Compton by bluegrass fans. Like the audience high-fives after his solos, and the sophisticated music lovers who trade Compton stories like school kids discussing sports stars. Because although Compton is one of the best known and most sought-after mandolin players on the circuit today, he doesn't seem to care about those things. And maybe that's because Compton has seen just about every side of the music-biz story, and he knows that what goes up will come down.
Though he was born in Meridian, Miss. also the hometown of a certain Jimmie Rodgers - Compton wasn't exactly "born into a musical family," or any of the other rural ...