The banjo comes commonly in three basic flavors: 4-string, 5-string and 6-string, and is arguably one of the most difficult stringed instruments to learn. When paired with a fiddle, mandolin, acoustic ...

For some reason, the banjo is an instrument that lends itself to jokes. For example, one joke asks, “What’s worse than a banjo?” The answer, “Two banjos.” If that’s the case, the audience can ...

Danny Barnes has added a few items to his survival guide. Barnes, the former front man and banjo-pickin’ fool of the Bad Livers, left the loving arms of the red-hot Austin music scene in 1999, landing ...

Sometime last winter, Noam Pikelny grew restless. He’d recently wrapped up a tour with the Punch Brothers, plucking his banjo strings to songs from the group’s chart-topping album, The Phosphorescent ...