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Cigar Box Banjo
Notes on Music and Life
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A musician and writer's memoir looks death in the face and reminisces about a life in song.
As a kid, Paul Quarrington had a favourite song. In it, a boy fashions a banjo from a cigar box, pluckily sets off for a music contest in the next town, and wins with a song that weaves in the sounds he'd heard on his way to the contest: a bluebird trilling, …
