***2003 release, restocked. "The ultimate one-man-band wild man from the 1960s of whom some have said 'the southern Hasil Adkins'. ABNER JAY was the most unusual music talent the world has ever seen and a true Southerner. His original LPs are now sought after and very rare making this CD reissue very welcome. Abner played the long-necked, plucked string instrument we nowadays call the banjo. For forty two years Jay worked as a unique one man band where he played banjo, guitar, drums, harmonica, and sang at the same time. Abner Jay was the first of the original black musicians and played the only electric six string banjo you'll ever hear. Jay was a native of Fitzgerald, Georgia and was once a traveling performer with the SILAS GREEN SHOW, one of the last multifaceted road shows on record. Tastes and tolerances of what constitutes acceptable public entertainment are always changing and Jay was part of making idioms which may not in fact have received too much exposure in the daily pressure to captivate audiences by extrovert mannerisms. Singing song on subjects ranging from LSD to 'what's six inches long and has two nuts on the end'—you got to hear it to believe it. A true glimpse at some real Americana compiling the best tracks from Abner's original LPs."