The Alaskan Adventures of the Banjo Pilot is the continuing saga of Duke “The Banjo Pilot” Steel and his family.
In The Banjo Pilot novel, his daughter Lisa tells us the story of her father Duke, his North Carolina upbringings, his family, his time as banjoist for Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys (probably the most significant band leader in the history of any genre of music), his time as leader of his own Pilot Mountain Boys bluegrass band, the tragic story of his early flying years, the subsequent twenty years as a pilot for Eastern Airlines followed by his time getting acquainted with bluegrass festivals as they were becoming increasingly popular in the late 1970s. Lisa also describes their Christian upbringing and how it stays with them through the good times and the bad.
After his career with Easter, he was fifty-four. Now, at fifty-six, he convinces his family to start a new adventure by founding a bush flying business in the Inland Passage of Southeast Alaska. Along the way, we discover the hidden truth about his new wife and we find that the local mafia is affecting their lives in ways they could not have imagined.
Join Duke and his growing family as they engage us in their new business and the threat to their livelihood and their lives by the mafia.
Icy Strait. The Alaskan Adventures of the Banjo Pilot
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This is the sequel to The Banjo Pilot. It is written much differently than The Banjo Pilot and answers all the questions one might have about what happened our hero Duke Steel and his family.
As a personal note, it includes many of the adventures I had when I flew as a bush pilot up there in southeast Alaska’s Inland Passage 1975-1976 (for L.A.B. Flying Service and Alaska Island Air, both of which are now defunct). Many of the stories are true experiences.
Contact author for a signed copy of Icy Strait. barry@barryrwillis.com
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by Joe Ross, and by Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine
