Like several of you I was quite taken with the ad for banjo lessons in yesterday’s clipping from the Thresher but I couldn’t really see any reasonable way to follow up on it:
Still, as long as I had the 1963 volume in my hand I figured I might as well look through it a bit, just for fun. It only took a few moments to spot this in another issue:
I think the Top of the Mark was at 3400 Montrose (recently demolished) but I’m not certain.
Well now, this gives me something to work with. And indeed, I quickly found the story right from the horse’s mouth. Go here for the run down on Bill Palmer and the Bayou City Boys.