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Chris Thile
Prodigy
by James M. Manheim
posted 10/1/2006
Mandolinist Chris Thile (Th as in thin; rhymes with freely) faces a dilemma that he shares with other creative figures at his rare ability level: having outstripped other players technically by the time he was about sixteen, he has rapidly moved into new stylistic realms and thereby runs the risk of forgetting who he was musically. In Thile's case the
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