Texino Takes Charge!
Non Player to rule.
Words from the deep caves of Kentucky, the true home of Bluegrass,
have verified that T.Texino has taken charge of the "Banjo Element"
of the
questionably
popular but truly American music style.
Although stories differ almost all agree that Panamanian immigrant,
Tomas B. Texino is the new Director of Banjo Doctrine and Protocol, a
position
that places the middle aged canal worker and religious scholar in complete
charge of all matters to do with the the hybrid contraption. Texino,
as he prefers to be called has not been available to comment; however,
sources close to the subject predict that it will not be an easy road
for the new director. "For one thing, he don't even play a banjo" says
long time Texino watcher and highly educated singer/songwriter David
S. Dowling of Flora-lina. Dowling, who gained recognition as "The Two
Town Man" in the 90s predicted "Bad Blood and heartache" would ensue.
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Proposed Banjo Palace & HQ
South Georgia to be home to new Banjo HQ.
Water rights and foster care major issues in choosing location.
Pentangle, GA. Local residents of this small town
hard by the Okefenokee are at a loss to explain what could be called
good fortune or a Yankee trick depending on who you ask. Either way,
the proposed construction of The Banjo World HQ. and African
Experimental Church certainly has everyones attention. "Right now,
I'd say they have put nothing on the table and nothing in the ground."
said Town Mayor Collier Good in a cell phone interview. "Personally,
I think it's Indians, you know Natives, pushing some kind of Bingo parlor
and I'm elected to stop that sort of thing. People are just here to live
and die" he added.
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The artist conception looks a lot like the famous Taj Mahal
but Tomas Texino, new director of Banjo matters for Bluegrass Music insists
that the proposed Banjo Palace and HQ for African Religious
Studies has nothing to do with bingo. "It's just a fancy
place to administer banjo legislation and study bush doctoring
and reanimation" said Texino.When asked to comment on the
rumors that he does not play the banjo, Texino, as he likes
to be called produced a multi colored ball from his pants
and bounced it off the floor causing the ball to light up
and make all manner of noise like a car alarm. Texino then
put the ball away with a gesture that seemed to indicate
that the case was closed and went on to say that he had a
'Mahal' to build and no time for 'plunking on a damn bango'.
"Besides" the handsome former boxing champ quipped,"there's
always someone better than you." Texino then told the old
story about the banjo kid in that movie deliverance , insisting
that the boy was real and just happened to be hanging around
the set and that there were more banjo players in Georgia
than mayflies in May.
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