Ah, the banjo: As the only instrument rated and certified for the art of duelin’, it’s not often that we consider the humble dirtfiddle an especially relaxing musical tool—the work of noted master ...
Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...
Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...