I love Christmas Music. I love listening to it, I love singing it, and I especially love playing it. When I hear Christmas Music I’m reminded of very happy holiday times, especially times from my childhood with family and friends. The soundtrack of my holidays...

This video teaches where the "blue" notes are located in the key of G on the mandolin relative to the "G chop chord" and how to locate these notes in different keys and positions on the mandolin. Dix Bruce teaches The Moveable Blues from his book/audio set "Getting...

I don’t think I can begin to describe how much The Goose Island Ramblers and their music have meant to me over the years. Nor can I say how strongly they influenced me as a musican and a performer or how much incredible music they taught me. I still learn things every...

I just finished recording several new videos. The first is a solo improvisation for the song “Swing in Minor,” from my Gypsy Swing and Hot Club Rhythm Complete book/audio sets. (See below left.) It’s the first of two solos for “Swing in Minor” which is based on the...

New Release: Tiny Moore Live! Recorded at Larry Blake’s — 12/20/80 I am excited to tell you about a new release of some old music that has inspired and excited me for over forty years. I recorded a live show of the great Tiny Moore playing electric mandolin and fiddle...

I just posted three more short instructional videos, one each on guitar, bass, and mandolin. You can use the links below to view them. I’ll also add these links to the appropriate pages on the Musixnow website. I hope you find them useful. Best, DixThree More Short...

I've been planning to make some new videos for quite some time and finally got around to recording them last month. Most are short product profiles with me detailing what the items we feature are all about. Book profiles discuss what you'll learn from a particular...

I’m tickled pink to announce the publication of my two new Gypsy Swing & Hot Club Rhythm Complete book/recording sets: Gypsy Swing & Hot Club Rhythm Complete -  Mandolin edition Gypsy Swing & Hot Club Rhythm Complete -  Guitar edition  Special price:...

Each year during the holiday season I like to post some appropriate holiday music. It's usually an ancient carol or traditional melody played on guitar or mandolin. This year, in these special and unusual times, I decided to do something a little different. I hope you...

Rough Times 2020 has been a rough year. I should probably say that again: 2020 has been a rough year. A very rough year. A whole lot of people have experienced a whole lot of physical suffering and death from COVID-19. Many more are having severe financial...

Alas, we’ve come to the final posting of our Vintage Videos of Yesteryear with Jim Nunally and me. This last video is of a song I wrote titled When I Die. You can pretty much tell what it’s about by the title. If you’d like to go right to the video click here. Or,...

We’re getting down to the shank of the collection as my old pal Bob Alekno used to say. This is the penultimate posting of our vintage videos. Just one more to go after this one. We just posted these videos: The Banks of the Ohio That’s the Way Things Are Here are the...

Wow! This is posting five of newly discovered yet somehow old and crusty videos by Jim Nunally and me from 2009. Only a few left after this. We’re getting down to the shank of the collection! In case you don’t know we made them in 2009 and kind of forgot about them....

This is the fourth posting of videos by Jim Nunally and me. If you’ve been following my blogs on the subject over the past few weeks you know the saga. It’s covered in the previous posts. We just posted videos from 2009 of these songs: Something I Don’t Want to Know ...

Over the past few weeks we’ve been posting re-discovered videos of Jim Nunally and me playing music. We’d recorded the videos in 2009 but never got around to finishing or publishing them. We decided to make some final edits, add titles, put them on YouTube, and invite...

You might have seen the blog I posted last week with two re-discovered videos of Jim Nunally and me playing music. We’d recorded the videos in 2009 but never got around to finishing or publishing them. We decided to make some final edits, add titles, put them on...

I recently re-discovered several videos Jim Nunally and I recorded in 2009. The footage is of us performing some of our favorite songs from our CDs. If I remember correctly our intention was to collect them all onto a DVD. For some reason we never got around to...

These are the strangest of strange times. Sitting at home, worried about the world, our families, our friends, our jobs, everybody's health, the economy and anything else we can think of. I'm trying not to spend too much time watching the news and more time playing...

I’m happy to announce the launch of our newly redesigned Musix website! Most of the content from the old site remains, we just spiffed up the presentation. You can still get Mandolin World News back issues, all of my books and recordings, plus matted photos, luggage...