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Adventures for 12-String, 6-String and Banjo

Adventures for 12-String, 6-String and Banjo is an album by American folk guitarist Dick Rosmini, released in 1964.[1] It is out of print in LP format, appears never to have been released in CD format, and has been available as an MP3 download since October 5, 2010 (ASIN B004620SNC).

Adventures for 12-String, 6-String and Banjo
Studio album by
Dick Rosmini
Released1964
StudioWhitney Recording Studio, Glendale, California
GenreFolk
LabelElektra
ProducerJac Holzman
Dick Rosmini chronology
Adventures for 12-String, 6-String and Banjo
(1964)		 A Genuine Rosmini
(1969)

History

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Rosmini is best known for his role in the American "folk revival" of the 1960s as a session player and accompanist. Adventures for 12-String, 6-String and Banjo was Rosmini's first solo album and was, at the time, one of the few solo steel-string guitar albums available. He recorded only four albums under his own name, two of them instructional albums.

Adventures for 12-String, 6-String and Banjo has been cited as a major influence by many acoustic guitarists including Dave Van Ronk[2], Leo Kottke[3] , and Jimmy Page[4]It is mainly solo guitar or banjo plus bass, second guitars, and percussion.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllmusicStarStarStarStarHalf star [5]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Richard Meyer wrote of the album "This album predates much of John Fahey's work and certainly that of Leo Kottke and the other "American primitive" guitarists. Hard to find but well worth the search"[5]

Track listing

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Side one

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  1. "Little Brown Dog"
  2. "900 Miles to Go"
  3. "Casey"
  4. "Joshua"
  5. "Shady Grove" (Traditional)
  6. "Improvisation for 12-String" (Rosmini)
  7. "St. James Drag"
  8. "Macedonian Rag"

Side two

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  1. "John Hardy" (Traditional)
  2. "Two Shady Ladies in 3/4 Time" (Traditional)
  3. "Jelly Roll"
  4. "Picker's Medley"
  5. "Goin' Baroque"
  6. "Sweet Substitute"
  7. "Freight Train" (Elizabeth Cotten)
  8. "Sadie"
  9. "Minstrel Boy"

Personnel

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  • Dick Rosmini – 6 and 12-string guitar, banjo (double-tracked on "John Hardy" (banjo) and "Minstrel Boy", "Sweet Substitute" and "Jelly Roll" (guitar), whistling, arranger, adapter
  • Red Mitchell – bass
  • Gene Estes – drums
  • Doug Marsch – drums
  • Allan Reuss – second guitar
  • Tony Rizzi – second guitar
  • Johnny Horton – second guitar
Technical
  • Mark Abramson - recording
  • William S. Harvey - design
  • Angelo Laiacona - photography

References

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  1. ↑ Liner notes.
  2. ↑ Van Ronk, Dave. liner notes The Folkways Years 1959-61
  3. ↑ Ohlschmidt, Jim. Acoustic Guitar. Nov/Dec 1992. Archived January 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Accessed June 17, 2009
  4. ↑ Page, quoted in Keith Shadwick, ''Led Zeppelin: The story of a band and their music 1968–1980'': “I used an Altair Tube Limiter. I’d got that from a chap called [Dick Rosmini] who’d recorded an album called [Adventures For 12-String, 6-string And Banjo on Elektra in 1964]. I’d never heard an acoustic sound quite like that. I bumped into him in the States and asked him how he got his recorded sound, and he said the whole secret was the Tube Limiter. It was so reliable. We even used [later] it on ''In Through The Out Door''.”
  5. 1 2 Meyer, Richard. "Adventures for 12-String, 6-String and Banjo > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
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