At Home and on the Range: The Duo Live
For decades, Mike Marshall and Darol Anger have applied their  instrumental chops in all sorts of high-powered acoustic ensembles, both  together (in the dazzling late-'70sDavid Grisman Quintet,  the '80s Windham Hill groupMontreux,  and, more recently,Psychograss,NewGrange, and the  jam-oriented Anger/Marshall Band) and separately (Anger'sTurtle Island String  Quartetand Marshall'sModern Mandolin Quartet).  But as this duo set demonstrates, these easygoing virtuosos need no band support  to head off on some wild instrumental adventures. Constitutionally eclectic,  they travel fromBill  Monroetunes to Ireland (the ever-popular "Shebag, Shemor") and Sweden  ("Väsen Your Seat Belt") to Marshall's unclassifiable originals (mandocello  funk on "Gator Strut"). The fiddle, mandolin, and guitar work is state of the  art, effortlessly swinging and telepathically in sync from nearly a quarter  century of making music together. Liner notes by surrealist songwriter Patrick  Brayer complete a fine portrait of two musicians at the top of their game.--Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers