Is there anything Steve Martin can’t do? The comedian-actor-playwright-banjo player has earned his seventh No. 1 on the bluegrass albums chart in the U.S. with Safe, Sensible and Sane, his ...

There is no American music without Black roots. From country-western, which draws upon banjo music from Africa, to rock 'n' roll-first electrified by a Black woman in 1938-every major American genre ...

There is no American music without Black roots. From country-western, which draws upon banjo music from Africa, to rock 'n' roll—first electrified by a Black woman in 1938—every major American genre ...

“They seem like latecomers to me,” says Fleck, 58, who since 1973, when he was given his first banjo by his grandfather, has taken the five-stringed instrument to previously unimagined heights of ...

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