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Canberra Chris Rick's Pickin' tips. Questions & Answers (78* d) RE: Rick's Pickin' tips. Questions & Answers 25 Aug 99


Rick, I think it was your thread last week about helping a lass with banjo finger-picking styles. I found that French banjo album. It is LDX 74472, Le Banjo Americain, by Steve Waring, on Le Chant du Monde label. The whole production is a collector's piece, with elaborate sleeve-notes in Franglais - such as "Ici Claude en Cross-Picking really blows my mind!" (followed by a translation into French of 'really blows my mind'.) I acquired the album off a friend in the late seventies, it could be years older. It has some wild technical tracks on it, and full three-fold sleeve notes on technique in French. It may not be what you want, but it should be worth the effort to track down if you can find it. The album's discography cites Folkways albums Dock Boggs, FA 2351, and Roscoe Holcomb & Wade Ward, FA 2363, and also Steve Wray in Tom Banjo, LDX 74393. Hope it's of interest.


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