With a quiver of banjos metaphorically on his knee and a rejuvenated appreciation for the traditional bluegrass genre in which he first gained notoriety, 19-time Grammy winner Bela Fleck returns to ...

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

J.D. Crowe, an award-winning bluegrass banjoist, who helped establish the careers of country stars Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley in the 1970s and whose recordings with the Bluegrass Album Band ...

Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...

When the news broke earlier this week informing us of Sonny Osborne’s passing, my mind raced back to when I first heard him and sibling Bobby – bluegrass music’s indomitable Osborne Brothers – on a ...

Drawing on rock and R&B, Mr. Crowe recast the sound of bluegrass while helping launch the careers of some of the genre’s biggest stars. By Bill Friskics-Warren J.D. Crowe, a master banjo player and ...