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| Wake Frankfield (August 1, 2001) Frank Wakefield talks backward. He took the stage at Grass Valley and announced "Goodbye. I'm Wake Frankfield." If you say something he agrees with he says "Me neither." If he's picking with you and you play a good song he says "I didn't like that. Don't pick another one." He has a Gibson Lloyd Loar signature 1923 mandolin that he once filled with sand and baked in the oven. Another time he painted it pink. Frank was once David Grisman's mandolin teacher, and he spent a lot of time in San Francisco in the '60s. He cut a record with Jerry Garcia. He wears cool western shirts. He sings it like he means it. He requested that he play not one but two encores, one of them a 10-minute version of "Orange Blossom Special," after his first set where he showed up late missing his banjo player. At Grass Valley in 2001 he sat at the artists tent and played along with one of our sets. He will pick mandolin with anyone who walks up to him, and he'll talk to anyone for as long as they want. I don't think I saw him all weekend without his mandolin in his hand. A lot of guys can pick good mandolin, but Wake Frankfield is a guy I'll remember.
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