Japanese guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto started out as a banjo player in his home city of Kyoto, teaching himself to play by listening to the only bluegrass record he owned, Earl Scruggs’ “Foggy Mountain ...

Prolific, peripatetic and polymorphic, Eugene Chadbourne takes the banjo to places no one else has ever imagined. His madly expressive and acutely idiosyncratic grasp of the instrument has unlocked ...

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 ...

Lonesome pine -- Eatin' out of your hand -- Two timin' baby -- Kentucky Hill special -- He showed me the way -- I'm all alone -- What can I tell my heart -- Windy mountain -- Lost in this world -- Two ...

In this two-part special of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka sits down with renowned blues musician Otis Taylor for an intimate and dynamic conversation.