Mr Sun: “The People Need Light”
Mr Sun is Peghead Nation mandolin instructor Joe Walsh, Darol Anger, Grant Gordy, and Ethan Jodziewicz. Watch them play a live version of the title track to their new album.
Peghead Nation mandolin instructor Joe Walsh is part of the new acoustic supergroup Mr Sun with Darol Anger on fiddle, Grant Gordy on guitar, and Ethan Jodziewicz on acoustic bass. They’ve recently released their first album, The People Need Light, on Compass Records. In this video, they play the title track, written by Walsh and Gordy, live at Drom NYC.
To learn mandolin with Joe Walsh, sign up for his course, The Advancing Mandolinist, on Peghead Nation.
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