god and the banjo are dead

The Death Throes and Demise of the Banjo," due to be published by a subsidiary of a Random House Ventures Partner, is authored by Carole Wade without apologies.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 10, 2006 -- Today's banjo musicians have become boring. They talk excessively throughout their performances, grabbing one banjo to pick for a few minutes and then sharply turn around on stage to "hype" another banjo while at the same time same time "foot-stomping" frenetically. They repeat the same tired outdated story about themselves as they "skip-through" their alleged education from long-deceased traditional banjo musicians. Today's best known banjo players have never even taken the time to learn to read music!

The Death Throes and Demise of the Banjo
Enlightening and provocative, "The Death Throes and Demise of the Banjo," due to be published by a subsidiary of a Random House Ventures Partner, is authored by Carole Wade without apologies. Wade has assembled thousands of pages revealing how the banjo died in a sort of low-key limbo. The death of the banjo did not happen suddenly, but its failing began in the early '70's in Chicago. She reveals that on the North Side of the city in a small club, performers from wealthy elitist multi-millionaire families living on Lake Shore Drive pretended that they hailed from poor areas of the Deep South. Astonishingly, their audiences believed all their lies.

While a few banjo teachers from the early 1930's era were playing true Southern Appalachian music, not one of their affluent students from Chicago fully grasped their instrument's precise cords. The five-string banjo is the easiest instrument to learn since its strings can be mastered quickly without any formal training. The Folk Archive of the Library of Congress continues to produce a few banjo recordings a year, but the banjo's adrenaline rush has been over now for decades. As the old saying goes, "Call me anything, but don't call me a bore." Well, the banjo is boring. Nothing saved the banjo.