The truth is that most Americans don’t have an ear for real old-time music. The traditional music of our forebears was harsh, modal, and nasal. It’s an uneasy blend of British balladry, Scots-Irish ...

It’s easy to pick up the style but difficult to master – but you don’t have to be a master to participate.” For Ingham, clawhammer banjo grows in interest in what he calls the post-traditional age and ...

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 ...

Forty-five-year-old Pat Kelleher likes a song "with a good story to tell" and that fact helped nurture his career as a singer of Irish folk songs. Having an older brother who played the five-string ...

Banjo player Mark Johnson, who combines a clawhammer style with the three-finger style of bluegrass picking to create a unique hybrid sound, is the recipient of the third annual Steve Martin Prize… By ...

Orange Tree Samples has released Evolution Clawhammer Banjo, which they describe as a folk-style open back banjo powered by Native Instruments' Kontakt Player. Here's the details direct from the ...

( Steve Baughman playing a real ole-timey Appalachian banjo-song's tune on his steel-strung ac guitar.. which leads to a pretend-one of his own. Deft-cyclic, solo fingerstyle ac guitar, using ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. This Sunday, Steve Martin headlines the final night of the Bluegrass ...