( 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 ...

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

With a hunk of wood between their legs and a nationally acclaimed banjoist leading the way, a small group of eager students strummed the chords and sang the familiar folk lyrics on a recent January ...