At the age of 16, just when he was becoming serious about playing music, Jayme Stone discovered what he thought of as “roots” music: “Everything from Pete Seeger to Earl Scruggs to Béla Fleck,” said ...
You'd think places like Kentucky and Tennessee would be where you'd find hot banjo players, but New York has a few fine five-string players to be mighty proud of too, including Woodstock's Bill Keith ...
Watch Mills demonstrate the 3-finger "Scruggs style" of banjo picking: North Carolina bluegrass musician Jim Mills demonstrates 3-finger banjo picking style. See the unexpected gift Mills got for ...
If bluegrass quintet the Steep Canyon Rangers were booked at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on their own, they'd likely be on the intimate Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage. The Steep Canyon Rangers ...
"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...
Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...
Doc Cullis is still picking the banjo at 85. Hundreds flocked to McDonald Farm in Sale Creek on Saturday for the first annual Family Easter event since Hamilton County purchased the nearly 2,200 acres ...
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