But it lacks any visible subject matter: no discernible woman, nary a mandolin.
Monroe's own off beat, blues drenched mandolin break is borrowed from no one.
Mr Jackson, 54 and who now lives in Oxfordshire, says he came up with the worldwide hit's classic mandolin melody.
When slicing the radishes and onions, a mandolin or very sharp knife is the best tool for getting paper-thin rounds and semi-circles.
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We use the mandolin or food processor so the slicing goes faster.
The record finds the band sampling a broader range of sounds, including a mandolin and a harpsichord, but rock is still its metier.
Mr. CHRISTIAN HOARD (Music Critic, Rolling Stone): So just how many mandolin solos do you think you can sit through in one concert?
The company also recorded four concertos by composer Avner Dorman, one of which earned Mr. Cyr and mandolin player Avi Avital Grammy nominations in 2011.
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Watson's mastery of flatpicking helped make the guitar a lead instrument in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was often considered a backup for the mandolin, fiddle or banjo.
Then on a stay in Mexico in 1956, he made the visual discovery that determined his career: he drew a mandolin with a tiny sound-hole, which made the instrument look bigger than normal.
"Parents who might have bought their kids a cheap Asian guitar are buying these Martins, which blow away everything in that price range, " says Stanley Jay, whose Mandolin Brothers music shop in Staten Island, N.
With the help of a few guest players and the inclusion of the viola, lap steel, upright bass, mandolin, and piano, "Letter To You" has a rich sound characteristic of the 8-piece indie-pop-orchestral band Margot and the Nuclear So and So's.
"Parents who might have bought their kids a cheap Asian guitar are buying these Martins, which blow away everything in that price range, " says Stanley Jay, whose Mandolin Brothers music shop in Staten Island, New York is a mecca for acoustic guitar customers.
For all its lilting mandolin lines and rich vocal interplay (Chris and Thomas are nothing if not born to sing simultaneously), there's an unnerving underbelly to "Take These Thoughts, " from the opening line ("And all I want is all that you possess") to the chilling last.
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