Guitar Lessons and Banjo Lessons in NYC

Bill Keith first tipped his trademark drivers cap to bluegrass audiences at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 1961. He entered and won its prestigious banjo ...

In addition to Bill Keith's interview in this issue of BNL, here's a tab of Wild Indian, mostly note-for-note, by Bill Emerson ; little more adventurous, esp...

Beaumont Rag is a very popular fiddle tune of uncertain origin dating back to the 1920s and was named after the small town of Beaumont, in Southeastern Texas...

The years from 1967 to 1973 were great for bluegrass banjo. In 1967, Bonnie and Clyde came out, with Earl's Foggy Mountain Breakdown. In 1972, Deliverance ca...

Needless to say, Bill Monroe will be sadly missed. The monumental legacy of bluegrass songs and instrumentals that Bill Monroe left us will of course go on f...

In 1964, The Dillard's debut album "Back Porch Bluegrass" (Elektra-EKS 723-) stunned the national bluegrass audience. The Dillards brought a new vitality and...

This first Tablature by Earl Scruggs, Before I Met You, was released on the Harmony label HL 7250 in 1955. It was later re-released on the Bear Family 5-CD ...

For this article I've arranged and tabbed out two banjo standards. John Hardy and Soldier's Joy. These two tunes can probably be heard at any gathering of ba...