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GUEST,Patrick Costello Self Taught: Fingerpicking (40) RE: Self Taught: Fingerpicking 24 Mar 05


It's hard to say. Volume Two (Getting Good) and Volume Three (Be Cool) are basically written - but for some reason it's banjo stuff that's paying the bills right now.

I find it hard to figure out because nobody really gives a hoot or a holler about the banjo anymore - at least that's what I thought until we started doing the book signing & workshop gigs. For every guitar player we get there's ten or more people walking up with banjos.

It's crazy. The banjo market is supposed to be dead, but everywhere we go there is this crowd of people ranging from eight to eighty and almost all of them are holding banjos.

Whatever the reasons for the banjo material selling, as a business we can't ignore it. Right now most of our resources are being pumped into keeping the two banjo books in print and gearing up for the release of (sob) a third banjo title this year.

When the guitar stuff start picking up we're ready to roll with it, but until then the guitar has to play second fiddle.

Like they say, there ain't no business like show business.

-Patrick


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