During his decades in country and bluegrass music, Oakland County resident Cranford ‘Ford’ Nix Sr. played with some of the genre’s superstars including George Jones, Flatt & Scruggs and Bill Monroe – ...

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Did you hear the one about the banjo player who got all the gigs? Well, it’s no joke, the banjo is back, and it couldn’t be more popular. A mainstay of trad jazz, bluegrass and folk, the banjo’s ...

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 ...