Guitarists might explore many styles while trying to find their mojo, but if you're looking for an authentic bluegrass sound on that electric six-string, Jon Langberg's Guitar-Jo might help. The ...

Like Barker, Brooks plays guitar and six-string banjo. He leads his own traditional jazz band, the Syncopated Percolators, and works as a sideman with Dr. Michael White, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Donald ...

Like it or not, the nu-folk revolution of the early 2010s has led to a surge in interest in banjo, but if you’re a guitarist who seeks that elusive twang from your own instrument, you’ve been out of ...

Did you hear the one about the banjo player who got all the gigs? Well, it’s no joke, the banjo is back, and it couldn’t be more popular. A mainstay of trad jazz, bluegrass and folk, the banjo’s ...

The members of Old Crow Medicine Show aren't old and neither is their music. It just sounds that way. The Tennessee string band plays old-time Appalachian Mountain music with bluegrass and jug-band ...

For a long time now, banjo players have been coping with an enduring but inaccurate image: It’s that kid in the 1972 film Deliverance, plucking away with a blank expression on “Dueling Banjos” as Burt ...

And a mandolin starts up the distinct sound of Hank Williams' "Jambalaya." It is joined by an acoustic six-string guitar and a banjo as a male tenor sings, "Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the ...