<!–Richie Dotson puts the finishing touches on a guitar repair. Dotson first started repairing stringed instruments out of a need to fix his own banjo. –>If you’ve got a sick banjo, Richie Dotson has ...

The banjo gets a bum rap. A staple of American country music, its bright tone and rhythmic clangor threaten to overwhelm musical gatherings of other, milder string-band instruments, such as guitar, ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. There is no way to achieve that old-fashioned Appalachian ...

Unless the room is ultra-hip -- meaning, its occupants know something about Don Vappie or Bela Fleck -- banjo gets a bad rap. The new PBS documentary titled "Give Me the Banjo," narrated by Steve ...

The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...

ROCK SPRINGS — When Brent Weber walked through the door with his long-neck Vega banjo, his passion for the stringed instrument was obvious. Decked out in a T-shirt that reads “Love one woman, many ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) When Frank Ford ...

• View this story alongside more photos, a slideshow and a video. When Frank Ford and Richard Johnston first met as college students back in the 1960s, introduced by a mutual friend, it was evident ...

He wasn't quite born with a banjo on his knee, but Darren Maloney's dexterity with the four-stringed instrument has brought him… He wasn't quite born with a banjo on his knee, but Darren Maloney's ...