Blues, country, folk, and hip-hop music relate in more ways than you know. Blues, country, folk, and hip-hop music relate in more ways than you know. One of the main instruments, used is county music ...

Japanese guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto started out as a banjo player in his home city of Kyoto, teaching himself to play by listening to the only bluegrass record he owned, Earl Scruggs’ “Foggy Mountain ...

Prolific, peripatetic and polymorphic, Eugene Chadbourne takes the banjo to places no one else has ever imagined. His madly expressive and acutely idiosyncratic grasp of the instrument has unlocked ...

At first glance Otis Taylor would seem to be marketed as a blues man mostly for lack of a better term. Certainly albums like his current don’t fit into any known blues scene in this, the ...

Sarah Mae & The Birkeland Boys perform "Banjo Blues". Sarah Mae & The Birkeland Boys perform their original song "Bajno Blues" from their album It's Time.

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 ...

Tony Trischka is one of the most influential banjo players in roots and bluegrass music. The Grammy-nominated artist has been at the forefront of the instrument starting in the mid-1960s and has ...

Oh my lord, what a night! This was based around the album from Otis Taylor, Guy Davis, Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart and Don Vappie and was intended as a showcase for the 'original’ Blues ...

Two fine performers will grace the stage at Bradford's Middle Earth Music Hall in upcoming performances. This Saturday, Chester-based guitarist/singer Chris Kleeman and his trio perform blues and funk ...