Adventures for 12 string, 6 string and banjo is an album by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 folk guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

ist Dick Rosmini

Dick Rosmini

Dick Rosmini was an American guitarist, at one time considered the best 12-string guitarist in the world. He was best known for his role in the American "folk revival" of the 1960s...

, released in 1964. 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

Roots revival

A roots revival is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors. Often, roots revivals include an addition of newly-composed songs with socially and politically aware lyrics, as well as a general modernization of the folk sound.After an...

" 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 an major influence by many acoustic guitarists including Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk was an American folk singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and was eventually nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street" ....

 and Leo Kottke

Leo Kottke

Leo Kottke is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies...

. It is mainly solo guitar or banjo plus bass, 2nd 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"

Side one

1. "Little Brown Dog"
2. "900 Miles To Go"
3. "Casey"
4. "Joshua"
5. "Shady Grove
   Shady Grove (song)
   "Shady Grove" is an 18th-century folk song popular in the United States. It is a standard in the repertoires of folk, Celtic and bluegrass musicians. In most traditional versions, the melody is in a minor key...
   
   " (Traditional)
6. "Improvisation for 12-String" (Rosmini)
7. "St. James Drag"
8. "Macedonian Rag"

Side two

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
   Freight Train (song)
   Freight Train is a song on the 1989 album by Nitro, O.F.R.. In the video for Freight Train, Michael Angelo Batio uses the one-of-a-kind quad guitar, which is a guitar with 4 necks. The top two necks have 7 strings and the bottom 2 have 6 strings. Unfortunately, that guitar was stolen after the...
   
   " (Elizabeth Cotten
   Elizabeth Cotten
   Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten was an American blues and folk musician, singer, and songwriter.A self-taught left-handed guitarist, Cotten developed her own original style. Her approach involved using a right-handed guitar , not re-strung for left-handed playing, essentially, holding a right-handed...
   
   )
8. "Sadie"
9. "Minstrel Boy"

Personnel

• Dick Rosmini
  Dick Rosmini
  Dick Rosmini was an American guitarist, at one time considered the best 12-string guitarist in the world. He was best known for his role in the American "folk revival" of the 1960s...
  
   – 6 and 12-string guitar, banjo (double-tracked on John Hardy (banjo) and Minstrel Boy, Sweet Substitute, and Jelly Roll (guitar)), arranger, adapter
• Red Mitchell
  Red Mitchell
  Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell (September 20, 1927, New York City - November 8, 1992, Salem, Oregon, was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet. He was the brother of Whitey Mitchell....
  
   – bass
• Gene Estes – drums
• Doug Marsch – drums
• Allan Reuss
  Allan Reuss
  Allan Reuss was an American jazz guitarist.Reuss was born New York City, he began playing professionally as a banjoist at age 12. He learned guitar from George Van Eps. In the middle of the 1930s, Reuss began playing in Benny Goodman's orchestra, playing with him on and off until 1943...
  
   – 2nd guitar
• Tony Rizzi – 2nd guitar
• Johnny Horton
  Johnny Horton
  John Gale "Johnny" Horton was an American country music and rockabilly singer most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs" which began the "historical ballad" craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s...
  
   – 2nd guitar