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AlRoy gets a lot of space here because she’s the rare musician who will put together a whole night of good performers. Tonight, at one of the unspeakably awful clubs on the Lower East, might have been her best bill yet. Al Duvall opened, playing a solo set to a small but enthusiastic crowd, and stole the show. He plays the banjo chordally, like a guitar, and writes authentic-sounding ragtime songs with thinly and not-so-thinly disguised dirty lyrics. Like the Roulette Sisters (with whom he sometimes performs), he’s an absolute master of innuendo. His biggest crowd-pleaser tonight was called Reconstruction, about a Civil War-era sex change operation. It’s funnier, and more grisly, than you could possibly imagine. Like the early 20th century songwriters he so clearly admires, he has a New York fixation, and a lot of the most evocative material he played tonight was set during that period here, [...]