Another famous pop song of the early 1980s with the mandolin is Boat on the River by Styx with Tommy Shaw playing mandolin. Yesterday I heard this song in our local radio station, so I looked what I could find about this song.
I have found many old and new videos with this song. In many of the videos you can see Tommy Shaw with his F5 mandolin.
And I found one very special video – see the last video – Tommy Shaw plays Boat on River on My Mandolin!
Enjoy Styx with Boat on the River!
GOWAN — TOMMY SHAW – BOAT ON THE RIVER – LIVE 2008!!!
STYX – BOAT ON THE RIVER
Styx Boat On The RIver ’82
Tommy Shaw plays Boat on a River on My Mandolin
Playlist Styx – Boat on the River
Wikipedia: Styx
Wikipedia: Tommy Shaw
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Styx: Greatest Hits (Amazon partnerlink)
If you think Tommy Shaw’s mandolin playing is great in this song then you need to check out “Dance with Me” from the Shaw/Blades (Jack Blades + Tommy Shaw duo) album Influence and may be seen on http://www.myspace.com/shawbladesinfluence