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Bobby Thompson, whose innovative style of banjo picking influenced generations, would have turned 89 years old today.

Legendary country musician Earl Scruggs, best known for defining bluegrass music with his unique fingerpicking style on the banjo, was celebrated in a Google Doodle on Friday. His own “Scruggs style” ...

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Classic Banjo, out August 6, features tracks by the best American banjo players over the past 60 years. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings The banjo conjures American musical icons: the ...

Banjo player Bill Keith passed away at 75 last Friday, October 23rd, after complications due to cancer. He died in his home in Bearsville, N.Y. Keith is widely considered a pioneer of banjo playing: ...

Steve Martin fits in so well with Steep Canyon Rangers that one might think that the North Carolinia ensemble is his band. But the banjo player/comedic talent/overall Renaissance man only started ...

A doctor at UNC Hospitals is determined to do away with cold, impersonal medicine and to make his patients feel special – even if it means bringing along his banjo. "I hate for people to be just a ...

If you know American bluegrass music, you know Earl Scruggs. Today, Google's doodle team created an animated illustration in honor of the famed banjo-picking pioneer, who would have celebrated his ...

NASHVILLE - Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88. Mr.