After being unsatisfied with digital banjo simulations, guitarist Jon Langberg came up with the Guitar-Jo, an accessory that gives an electric six-string an identity crisis by making it sound like ...

When accomplished string picker Bow Thayer couldn't find an instrument that catered for finger-pickin' and steel slidin' and banjo rollin' all in one place, he designed his own. Meet the Bojotar.

At MerleFest, the banjo-pickers and guitar strummers bridge the old and new. Geoffrey Himes. April 29, 2015. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

Jen Sygit grew up listening to an eclectic mix of music – from Elvis to Cat Stevens to Led Zeppelin. Perhaps that’s one reason she likes doing what she calls a hodge-podge of styles. &#… ...

If so, we have players such as Jon Gomm and companies such as Ibanez to thank for it, with the English acoustic virtuoso’s latest signature guitar further hot-rodding the traditional cutaway with ...

Eddie Adcock, a virtuoso banjo and guitar player who served as a bridge between the formative early years of bluegrass and the innovative “newgrass” movement of the 1970s and beyond, died on ...

St. Cloud has soaked in Kyle Gray Young's music since he moved to the Granite City in 2018. He's now preparing the 45th issue of Kyle's Banjo Club banjo sheet music. The 41-year-old musician, who ...

Born Jan. 13, 1909, Barker grew up playing banjo and guitar in New Orleans, and in 1930, moved to New York with his wife, the singer Blue Lu Barker.