The banjo is typically reserved for folksy country songs, but the instrument can be pretty versatile (even if it still totally sounds like it should be on a folk song). These 11 bands channeled their ...

Start tuning your instrument and reading tablature to learn beginner banjo songs and roll this easy bluegrass banjo chord song. So you always wanted to play bluegrass banjo, eh? You picked up a nice ...

In what will amount to an early Christmas present for bluegrass pickers and music lovers across Western North Carolina and ...

A new CD presents previously unreleased recordings by Hobart Smith, a traditional musician from southwestern Virginia who could play just about any instrument. Stephen Wade, the producer and annotator ...

Lonesome pine -- Eatin' out of your hand -- Two timin' baby -- Kentucky Hill special -- He showed me the way -- I'm all alone -- What can I tell my heart -- Windy mountain -- Lost in this world -- Two ...

It’s always news when “Banjo Dan” Lindner, Vermont’s dean of bluegrass, issues a new CD, even more so when it is to be his last. And appropriately, “Spirits” celebrates spirituality. “This is a ...

Move over, “Dueling Banjos,” and make way for the Eighth Annual California Banjo Extravaganza. This year’s line-up features Bill Evans, Leroy Troy and Gina Furtado on five-string banjo, supported by ...

Kurt Vile has been hard at work on the follow-up to 2013’s stoner-dad casual epic Wakin On A Pretty Daze, and he offered Spin an update. Among the revelations: Vile and bandmate Rob Laakso are ...

The project, which includes a podcast, is the brainchild of Jingle Punks co-founder Jared Gutstadt and hitmaker Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd. Jared Gutstadt, the co-founder of production music house Jingle ...