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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 ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

The banjo in American music was traditionally associated with bluegrass and old-time until the early 1970s when Tony Trischka spearheaded a movement to innovate the sound. In his hands, the banjo ...

Hand the banjo man a stringed instrument, and he'll pick you a tune fine enough to make Bill Monroe, the so-called father of bluegrass, perk up his ears. Hand him a cigar box, a car tag and a guitar ...

Kevin Enoch carves wood for a banjo. The Beltsville, Md., man says he likes the precision of crafting a banjo. “Guitars tend to be pretty plain, whereas banjos from the turn of the century are ...

It wasn’t easy to silence the set of “Saturday Night Live,” which at Friday evening’s rehearsal was a cacophony of banging hammers, buzzing saws and chattering crew members, but Steve Martin did it ...

STURTEVANT -- The Route 20 Bluegrass Jam is for anyone and everyone who sings and/or plays a bluegrass instrument: guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass or dobro! They jam on the 1st and 3rd Thursday ...

Even though the result is something that's maybe hard to put a label on, it comes from bluegrass. And all of us grew up with bluegrass to some extent. And we're really comfortable with that music, and ...