A trip to North Carolina to study bluegrass yielded this lesson: Earl Scruggs was the greatest there ever was I spent a couple of months last year studying bluegrass in North Carolina, and I learned ...

When Earl Scruggs died a couple weeks ago, the music world lost one of its most innovative and indispensable figures. Rarely has any one individual influenced the way musicians play a particular ...

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the screen adaptation of James Dickey’s Deliverance, as famous for its Grammy Award-winning instrumental song “Dueling Banjos” as its unsettling “bet you can ...

The Black Banjo Reclamation Project aims to put banjos into the hands of everyday people. Paul Ruta Of all the melodic musical instruments in the world, perhaps none is more connected to the land it ...

Coal Creek March (x2)--Sourwood Mountain--Sugarloaf lick--Barbara Allen (x2)--Mississippi sawyer--Fiddling around--Get along little dogies--Moonshiner--Wagoner's lad--Four Marys--Barbara ...