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...Cannon strums his banjo by the coal stove in his little house just south of the railroad tracks in Memphis. He plays and sings the songs he wrote himself-songs like Madison Street Rag and Walk Right In. Half a century ago, he toured the South with a medicine show, but the last time he played downtown in Memphis, he went to jail. He was giving a sidewalk concert for handouts when "the policeman took me by the seat of my britches and put me in his car." A $26 fine was proof enough for Gus Cannon that...
Atlanta, for instance, has the "Sorta 40," a dozen prominent (and fiftyish) business and professional men who began meeting about seven years ago when one of them discovered his old banjo in his attic and found some kindred spirits who decided it would be fun "to get together and play some." The Sorta 40s play for dances, and turn their fees over to charity-as does another Atlanta outfit called The Seventeen, which includes three architects, a doctor, an investment counselor, the plant manager for a box factory, an engineer, a lumber company vice president and an adman...
Regular performers there range from two fine bluegrass bands--the Charles River Valley Boys and Jim Rooney's group which periodically includes banjo wizard Bill Keith--to white blues singers Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, Tom Rush and Mitch Greenhill, to balladeers like Baezish Dayle Stanley and the amusing, talented but occasionally dull Jackie Washington. Unfortunately, Eric VonSchmidt has temporarily withdrawn from the local coffe-house scene. An added attraction is the Club 47's house bass player Fritz Richmond who gets more music out of a washtup than most bass-men do out of a string bass. It is well...
...time that the American university prepared a decent, respectable burial for the traditional American college fraternity? They have served an historical purpose and served it well. But we've given up banjo clubs and minstrels. Now it's time to face courageously the task of replacing the alumni-dominated fraternal system...
Before spry old Busta went off to Montego Bay, where he drank champagne, danced the twist and played the banjo at an all-night post-independence bash, he made it clear that Jamaica will remain in the orbit of the free world. "We are pro-American," he said staunchly. But he ducked questions about possible trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba, only 90 miles to the north. Perhaps he had in mind an old Jamaican proverb: "No cuss alligator' long mout' till you cross riber...