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...Beer-and-banjo fun was started six years ago in San Francisco at the Red Garter on North Broadway Street, and from Frisco the fad has rippled across the land. There's the Blue Banjo in Seattle, the Levee in Dallas, the Silk and Satin in Portland, the Red Garter in Chicago...
Mustache is owned by Joel Schiavone, 27, a barefoot boy from Harvard who sports a stubble of raggedy beard. A banjo strummer himself, Joel opened a club in Boston two years ago shortly after graduating from business school. Happily riding the banjo tide, he has opened another in Cape Cod and is planning a new one on New Orleans' Bourbon Street. But Joel views the future with the cold eye of a trained economist. "Novelty wears off and the crowds drop off," he says. "The life expectancy of these places is ten to 15 years at most...
...FOLK BANJO STYLES (Elektra). The banjo, the only instrument native to the U.S., is becoming as much a part of the summer landscape as the mosquito. Here is a recital (Flop-Eared Mule, Nine Hundred Miles, Goodbye Old Booze) in various styles by four experts. On the sleeve, there is a written exposition for beginning listeners of plain and fancy picking: frailing, up-picking, two-finger, three-finger, and the virtuoso Scruggs style...
ADVENTURES FOR 12-STRING, 6-STRING AND BANJO (Elektra). Leadbelly used to be about the only fellow to play the 12-string guitar, but now even the boy next door is learning the strums. One of the dozen new records featuring the instrument is this extravaganza of plucking by Richard Rosmini, who plays everything in sight. The 12-string alone sounds like a guitar accompanying itself, but here Rosmini uses three other guitarists, plus Jazz Bassist Red Mitchell picking away stylishly at the likes of John Hardy, Jelly Roll, St. James Drag. No singing...
...Studio's polyglot performers turn the dim basement room into a Cellar of Babel. Tennessee banjo pickers and American Negro folk singers take their turns with such musicians as a Sudanese oud player and a Japanese painter who sings improvised melodies to verses from Confucius. One night's program may include everything from a down-home treatment of Ballin' the Jack to a Yugoslavian dirge, and there is even one Italian folk singer whose songs are collected in the best ethnic tradition -from peasants, workmen, and lifers in an open-air prison in Sardinia...