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Rose, it becomes obvious, is really a comedian masquerading with a banjo, and his singing is a spoof on the whole lank-locked, guitar-strumming generation. Folk singers who are convinced that poverty equals purity, he points out, are called "ethnic artists," and "ethnic," he explains, "means you make less than $10,000 a year." Rose is 27, and has all the equipment needed to make a great deal more. He usually works at Greenwich Village's Gaslight Cafe, but this week he will open at the Blue Dog in Baltimore...
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...
...Legs. The experience has made them true international troubadors. Their repertory of songs is staggering. They sing in 27 different languages, including Batak, Luo, Amharic and Kis-si, and play such native instruments as the Indonesian angklung and the Chinese ch'eng. The neck of Crofut's banjo is fashioned from a leg from a Chinese table, while the frets are made out of toy railroad tracks from Korea...