Jonas Friddle grew up listening to classic rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, for example. He also heard a lot of folk musicians, including John Prine and Doc Watson, while growing up in the North ...

It’s easy to pick up the style but difficult to master – but you don’t have to be a master to participate.” For Ingham, clawhammer banjo grows in interest in what he calls the post-traditional age and ...

(classic high-lonesome/errie Appalchian song for male & female voice w cross-tuned ac guitar - reputedly, the first recording by an American of a guitar played in clawhammer style.

Forty-five-year-old Pat Kelleher likes a song "with a good story to tell" and that fact helped nurture his career as a singer of Irish folk songs. Having an older brother who played the five-string ...

Banjo player Mark Johnson, who combines a clawhammer style with the three-finger style of bluegrass picking to create a unique hybrid sound, is the recipient of the third annual Steve Martin Prize… By ...

ACOUSTIC EXPO 2014: In the second of our video lessons on essential picking techniques we're looking at Carter picking, percussive string slaps, clawhammer style, Latin rhythms and classical style ...