Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sanders show, Phish bassist Mike Gordon sat in the front row. Gordon is not so emotive. Still, after a scorching banjo solo by Bela that bled into a ten-minute solo by Victor (who was just named Bass Player Magazine's bassist of the year) involving, in turn, a four-string bass, a five-string bass, a six-string bass, and two four-string basses played simultaneously, Gordon was standing up grinning broadly and applauding with the rest of the audience...
Dancing milk cartons. Banjo playing robot dogs singing Dixie over the frozen peas. A petting zoo with live geese and goats. Free balloons and ice-cream cones. Employees disguised as ducks waddling down the aisle. Yes, it's just another happy, cornball day at Stew Leonard's, "the world's largest dairy store," according to Ripley's "Believe It or Not." But where is Stew? Why isn't the 63-year-old retailing legend greeting housewives or patting kids on the head or wearing his cow suit? Well, brace yourself, Ripley. The folks who run the animated megamarket in Norwalk...
...range from winding country melodies to light folk numbers to blackface minstrel songs--a genre with a strange place in the history of popular American music. The arrangements of the songs vary, but are all thickly textured with instruments rarely present in popular music today such as fiddle, mandolin, banjo, "field snare" and "bones." Shocked Iyrics are clever and ironic, only sometimes focusing on traditional country and blues lyrical themes...
...said drawl-and-twang music would never acquire a mass audience. Country music was, after all, the sort of rube industry that made a vamp out of the cowboy by putting him in rhinestones and that churned out corn pone-ography like TV's Hee Haw, the show where banjo pickers and celebrity fiddlers would pop out of a field to joke about henpecked husbands and lazy cousins. Worse, the last time country flashed across the national consciousness, it was propelled by the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, starring a mechanical bull and John Travolta. The crowd that had infested discos...
Assistant Professor of Music Graeme M. Boone, who teaches Literature and Arts B-71, "Jazz: An American Music," takes a more active role in his discipline after he leaves the classroom. Boone plays the guitar and banjo in a variety of different styles...