has been the subject of such controversy during his career that surely some people have wished that he would just shut up and play his banjo. If so, those people may be pleased by , which is largely an album of instrumentals. , the son of a composer and a violinist, took a detour from the family business into folk music, but here he returns to , , and , albeit as played on the banjo. He also turns to show music for 's and, inevitably, mixes these tunes in with various folk themes. He can't quite keep his voice silent during the "suite," however, as he whistles, yodels, hums, and even sings a line or two of German during Then, as of the 12th track, it seems that ran out of instrumentals, and the disc starts to turn into a regular folk album, complete with his tenor vocals on traditional folk songs and his own original (co-written with erstwhile / partner ), (aka ). finds playing the flute-like chalil in between a cappella verses. One more instrumental closes the album out, which sounds like a guitar overdubbed by a mandolin. The concept of having make an LP's worth of his banjo arrangements of the classics is a good one, and he and might as well have carried through with it all the way. ~ William Ruhlmann