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Mayman calls herself "a great extracurricular person" who has never made a commitment to any particular interest. Many of her interests are musical--she studied piano for 12 years, has taken guitar lessons since 9th grade, and plays the lute. When she studied in Germany she and a banjo player put together a series of concerts and lectures on American folk music. While working at Tanglewood for the BSO she frequented the shop of a violin maker because she enjoyed its atmosphere of glue pots and violin parts. However Mayman does not own one of the musical appliances which most...
PATRICK SKY. When Cambridge's favorite folkie is good, he is very, very good. When he's tired, he's still pretty funny. Sky mixes traditional songs, barroom ballads, and some original romantic lyrics with hilarious political songs directed against everyone from Nixon to the Pope. His banjo and guitar playing is usually worth the price of admission. When he gets a friendly audience, his concerts are often minor classics...
...around Nashville, Tenn., last week's première hour in this seven-part series promised an amiable music-cum-open-air aimlessness-Mel Tillis grinning through Neon Rose at the bar of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, 91-year-old Uncle Pete Pillington picking his banjo on his front porch, the Statler Brothers singing dauntlessly in the driving Tennessee rain. Country music fans will probably find the pop-crossover material impure, but if the appealing mood-and the lineup of top name performers-is sustained, this show could pave the way for a regular-season show celebrating country...
...promised you a rosegarden..." wouldn't send you begging for a copy of James Brown's "Hot Pants," it's doubtful that anything would. Good country music has largely been a triumph of performance over material, and there is no question that any first-rate country guitarist, fiddler, or banjo player could put most rock musicians to shame...
Since 1964, Doc has toured with his banjo-and-guitar-playing son Merle, whose growth as a musician and contribution to Doc's music have been considerable. With Doc going on 50 and Merle not quite half that age, the younger Watson is still overshadowed by his father on guitar, but impressive on banjo and a promising arranger of country tunes...