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...Montgomery in the early '60s. Anyway, "Once More" ended up on 1964's "Bluegrass Hootenanny," the second of three albums Melba and George made together (the best tracks of which are collected on this disc). In fact, this ballad has the Osborne Brothers signature all over it, with a banjo and some drum work providing a lilting country-bluegrass feel...
...After a short banjo-heavy intro, George and Melba take it away...
...music is constellated with real characters, do-it-yourselfers who couldn't stop asking "What if..." and who had the drive - and thick enough skins - to follow through on their hunches. From the basements and garages of the heartland came the electric guitar, the electric bass, the five-string banjo, the multitrack tape recorder and the pedal steel guitar. Perhaps it's our penchant for excess that leads us to make it louder, faster, different - especially different - and not everyone may see the results as signs of progress. But these brash creations are as accurate road maps of the American...
...discussing the advantages of analog versus digital reverb, and I even hear a pedal steel joke: Why should you always carry your tone bar with you? Because if you were killed in an accident and they only found fingerpicks on you, they might mistake you for a banjo player...
...WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, ALVINO, you ask? Well, it's about a sound that can by turns be as lush and languid as a full string section or as bright and bouncy as a banjo, that can be applied to the most complex jazz progressions as well as the rawest foot-stomping moonshine music. It's deeply sophisticated and wholly honky-tonk at the same time, and it's the ultimate American instrument...