Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SMOKY MOUNTAIN BALLADS (RCA Victor). Country music before it left the hills. Reissues from the '30s by Southern Appalachian fiddlers, banjo pickers and balladeers like Uncle Dave Macon, the Carter Family, and Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers...
...article had been written by Bob Dylan and sung by Joan Baez, accompanied by five hundred guitar and banjo-playing U.C.L.A. students from Berkeley, it would hardly have been less fantastically radical and unbelievable. There is nothing wrong with "searching and questioning," but in this age of pseudo-intellectual phonies, it is always the wrong things that are searched for and questioned...
...first leg of a four-month, State-Department-sponsored tour of the Far East and Africa, Folk Singers Steve Addiss, 29, and Bill Crofut, 30, have spent the last month hopscotching around the outlying villages in war-torn Viet Nam. Armed with a banjo, two guitars, a flute, a French horn and a 16-string Vietnamese zither called a dan tranh, they sang in schools and hospitals, in the streets and rice fields. They sang American, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Cambodian folk songs, often to a thumping chorus of artillery and mortar fire, slept on wooden planks, hitchhiked rides...
Beckmann's art jangles with the banjo beat and brassy horns of a prewar Berlin nightclub. Despair dresses up in a mauve derby and dirty spats, strutting stiffly around a shallow, klieg-lit stage like a man who has a pocketful of cash and a pawn ticket on his soul. Beckmann painted as if his eyes were taped open; yet his vision of man's fate is shot through with blinding compassion. So endowed, his art ages little, as shown in his first retrospective currently on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, including more than...
...people's work, though he has written several hundred pieces, among the better known being Gate Mouth Blues, Brother Bill and Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Hackett proves to have a real feeling for the Armstrong style, and his cornet solos, backed by authentic-sounding tuba, saxophone, banjo, trombone, piano and drums, are incisive and bouncy. Pick of the lot: Someday You'll Be Sorry, with Hackett's cornet and Sonny Russo's trombone taking turns playing obbligato to each other...