“The American banjo is kind of twangy, sort of repetitious,” Jennings noted after playing it for the audience. “It’s a drone instrument, much more of a percussion instrument, rather than a melodic one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

Marc Fields and his production team are inside historian and collector Jim Bollman's storied Arlington home. They know the drill by now. This time, Bollman sits patiently on a stool with his rare, pre ...

Unless the room is ultra-hip -- meaning, its occupants know something about Don Vappie or Bela Fleck -- banjo gets a bad rap. The new PBS documentary titled "Give Me the Banjo," narrated by Steve ...

The Black Banjo Reclamation Project aims to put banjos into the hands of everyday people. Paul Ruta Of all the melodic musical instruments in the world, perhaps none is more connected to the land it ...

In "Texas Hold 'Em," the singer is accompanied by a banjo. It's often thought of as a quintessential Americana instrument. But the history of the... Pop superstar Beyoncé released "Texas Hold 'Em" a ...

In the opening voice-over of The Librarian and the Banjo, banjo legend Béla Fleck says, “The truth of the banjo’s history is that it’s a really big story; it’s a really big American story — as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There could probably be no better evangelist for anything than the immensely respected Rhiannon Giddens, and the banjo is lucky to ...