Adventures for 12-String, 6-String and Banjo is an album by American folk guitarist Dick Rosmini, released in 1964.Liner notes. 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).
History 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 RonkVan Ronk, Dave. liner notes The Folkways Years 1959-61, Leo KottkeOhlschmidt, Jim. Acoustic Guitar. Nov/Dec 1992. Accessed June 17, 2009 , and Jimmy PagePage, 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.”It is mainly solo guitar or banjo plus bass, second guitars, and percussion.
Reception
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"
Track listing Side one "Little Brown Dog" "900 Miles to Go" "Casey" "Joshua" "Shady Grove" (Traditional) "Improvisation for 12-String" (Rosmini) "St. James Drag" "Macedonian Rag"
Side two
"John Hardy" (Traditional) "Two Shady Ladies in 3/4 Time" (Traditional) "Jelly Roll" "Picker's Medley" "Goin' Baroque" "Sweet Substitute" "Freight Train" (Elizabeth Cotten) "Sadie" "Minstrel Boy"
Personnel 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
External links Illustrated Dick Rosmini discography