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Political? Philosophical? Banjo's? This innovative music is full of surprises. Joel Harrison's CD, The Wheel, is a melange of philosophy and intriguing music. According to Harrison, he "wanted to assemble a body of work that contained the intimacy, complexity, and beauty of acoustic concert music and merge it with the raw, grooving spontaneity of jazz." I'm going to say he accomplished that; it seems to me...