Adventures for 12-String, 6-String and Banjo

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.

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Allmusic	[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]

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"

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"