Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5293105/5293208" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Forty ...

Clawhammer banjo, while sometimes used to play classical, Irish or other musical styles, is basically music from the Appalachian mountains, and complements the primary instrument the fiddle. Eno, a ...

(Alec Stone Sweet is the fingerstyle steel-string ac guitarist here - applying clawhammer banjo technique to the guitar. Spacious, haunting & quite exquisite solo guitar setting of two "ole-timey" ...

For over a decade Abigail Washburn, a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player, knew she wanted to help improve Chinese-American relations. She just never thought she’d be doing it through song.

Jonas Friddle grew up listening to classic rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, for example. He also heard a lot of folk musicians, including John Prine and Doc Watson, while growing up in the North ...

SALISBURY — If Bob Carlin were thinking of post-World War II banjoists to put on a Mount Rushmore, he says the faces carved in stone would have to include Earl Scruggs, Bill Keith, Bela Fleck and Pete ...

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 ...

Classic Banjo, out August 6, features tracks by the best American banjo players over the past 60 years. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings The banjo conjures American musical icons: the ...