Clawhammer banjo, while sometimes used to play classical, Irish or other musical styles, is basically music from the Appalachian mountains, and complements the primary instrument the fiddle. Eno, a ...

( Steve Baughman playing a real ole-timey Appalachian banjo-song's tune on his steel-strung ac guitar.. which leads to a pretend-one of his own. Deft-cyclic, solo fingerstyle ac guitar, using ...

The truth is that most Americans don’t have an ear for real old-time music. The traditional music of our forebears was harsh, modal, and nasal. It’s an uneasy blend of British balladry, Scots-Irish ...