Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

Steve Martin is a much funnier person than either Sting or Liza Minnelli, as befits one of the world’s most acclaimed comedic actors. But when Martin last week was told the same joke that inspired ...

The banjo, for years in the background, stepped out of the shadows in the steady hands of Earl Scruggs. Beyond his many recordings and appearances, the bluegrass music legend, who died Wednesday at 88 ...

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NASHVILLE, May 19 (UPI) -- Bluegrass star Doug Dillard has died of a lung infection in Nashville, his family said. He was 75. Dillard died Wednesday, a publicist said. With his brother Rod, Douglas ...

In 1960, legendary banjo player Earl Scruggs had an epiphany that had a tremendous impact on the music he made years later. Flatt and Scruggs, the famed bluegrass band he led with guitarist Lester ...