Dr. Banjo Steps Out

Pete Wernick | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 29, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Flying Fish Records
• ASIN: B000000ME0
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #304,734 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Whiskey Before Breakfast

2. Plane 45

3. Wichita Lineman

4. Cross-Eyed Fiddler

5. Beatin' My Time

6. Gnu Breakdown

7. Life's Too Short

8. It's a Gift

9. Plain and Fancy

10. Shady Grove

11. Western Wind

12. Lost in the Woods

13. Sally Ann

14. The Highest Place

15. Red Clay of Georgia

16. White Fences

17. Blueberry Ripple

18. Big Rock in the Road

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stellar Banjo Playing, January 25, 2001

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dr. Banjo Steps Out (Audio CD)

This is the 1992 re-issue of banjo player Pete Wernick's first solo album from 1978. It also features Tim O'Brien on half of these tracks. The following year these two would form the nucleus of the progressive bluegrass band Hot Rize. Fans of that band will find much here to enjoy.

While much of this is essentially straight-ahead bluegrass, Wernick throws in a few new wrinkles--phase-shifted banjo here, a flute there, even a synthesizer on one track ("Wichita Lineman"). As Tony Trischka says in the liner notes: "The thing that knocks me out is Pete's ability to work within a bluegrass context and still come up with new sounds."

Though he may not be as well known as fellow banjo pickers Bela Fleck, Bill Keith or Tony Trischka, Wernick is one of the instrument's major innovators. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

5.0 out of 5 stars HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, May 21, 2008

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Patricia Hennessy "CD Cellar 4" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dr. Banjo Steps Out (Vinyl)

This is the 1992 re-issue of banjo player Pete Wernick's first solo album from 1978. It also features Tim O'Brien on half of these tracks. The following year these two would form the nucleus of the progressive bluegrass band Hot Rize. Fans of that band will find much here to enjoy.

While much of this is essentially straight-ahead bluegrass, Wernick throws in a few new wrinkles--phase-shifted banjo here, a flute there, even a synthesizer on one track ("Wichita Lineman"). As Tony Trischka says in the liner notes: "The thing that knocks me out is Pete's ability to work within a bluegrass context and still come up with new sounds."

Though he may not be as well known as fellow banjo pickers Bela Fleck, Bill Keith or Tony Trischka, Wernick is one of the instrument's major innovators. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Review by Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE