Japanese guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto started out as a banjo player in his home city of Kyoto, teaching himself to play by listening to the only bluegrass record he owned, Earl Scruggs’ “Foggy Mountain ...

At first glance Otis Taylor would seem to be marketed as a blues man mostly for lack of a better term. Certainly albums like his current don’t fit into any known blues scene in this, the ...

Prolific, peripatetic and polymorphic, Eugene Chadbourne takes the banjo to places no one else has ever imagined. His madly expressive and acutely idiosyncratic grasp of the instrument has unlocked ...

MAKANDA — Lew Hendrix bought his first banjo from a one-armed man in 1962 for $15. The Arkansas native had first picked up the guitar in high school, and by the time he started college, he’d shifted ...

The banjo is typically reserved for folksy country songs, but the instrument can be pretty versatile (even if it still totally sounds like it should be on a folk song). These 11 bands channeled their ...

Oh my lord, what a night! This was based around the album from Otis Taylor, Guy Davis, Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart and Don Vappie and was intended as a showcase for the 'original’ Blues ...

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Boulder musician Otis Taylor always has been much more than your average bluesman. He wants to make audiences think as they listen, and his latest bid to do so happens Wednesday at Immersive Studios ...