Whether it’s folk music, bluegrass ... For bluegrass or more modern styles, a resonator banjo is more appropriate. I suggest researching and listening to different banjo styles to determine ...

The banjo made that ideology sound down-home. Both Jones and Seeger performed variations of American roots music, so it made sense that they both played the banjo. According to one manufacturer in ...

It establishes Drew as a cosmopolitan, upper-middle-class consumer immersed in modern, twentieth-century mass music and culture ... the banjo to tell different stories about America. They are ...

Just miles from the snow-glistening Rockies — the mountains often revered in the tunes of folk and bluegrass — twanging ...

Ron Hinkle has been hearing banjo music for as long as he can remember. Growing up in a family that loved the instrument, he decided to start playing at 12. Picking up the banjo felt natural, as if ...

I first became aware of The Dead South a few years ago when I heard their song, “In Hell I’ll Be in Good Company” from their ...

Stewart Universal Favorite Custom Banjo, ca. 1890. The neck is made from cherry, and the instrument’s shell is made from maple. The heel plate is ebony. The tuning pegs and head, ivory tailpiece ...

Billboard counts down the best country acts of the past (almost) 100 years. Ever since Ralph Peer held his famous recording ...

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

“Obviously the banjo’s got African roots too. Country music came from people in the South ... told the news site that many of ...