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 ...

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 ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

A Greensboro native and celebrated musician plays a key role in the new Beyoncé single. Rhiannon Giddens, a two-time Grammy winner, plays the banjo in the first 15 seconds of Beyoncé's new single, ...

More banjo! After a long hiatus and rumors of a split, the men of Mumford & Sons are officially still together and back at it with a reinvented new sound. The rockers returned this week with the ...

An interview with the NME last week brought the revelation that the banjo had been put down on new album Wilder Mind, a comment proved factually accurate on new single "Believe", which eschews the ...

Clarkson's new album, "Chemistry," will be released on June 23. Kelly Clarkson is opening up about the reality of love in a new song. In her new single, "I Hate Love," which features actor Steve ...