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Troy Boswell (born May 23, 1966), known professionally as Leroy Troy, is an old-time banjo player from Goodlettsville, Tennessee.His banjo style is the clawhammer or frailing style, distinct from more commonly found Scruggs style banjo playing in modern bluegrass.
Courtney Johnson (December 20, 1939 – June 6, 1996) was an American banjo player, best known for his work as an original member of the band New Grass Revival.Influenced by Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys, Johnson is often considered to be an inventor of the newgrass style of banjo playing, polished and improved later on by such personalities as Béla Fleck, Alison Brown, Scott ...
The first consists of primary banjo players and the second of celebrities that also play the banjo This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Mike Snider (born May 30, 1961) is an American banjo player and humorist. He specialized in "old-time" mountain music which is a stylistic that can be traced back to the core beginnings of country music. He learned to play the banjo at the age of 16. Although he is well known for comedic routine, he is also a banjo player.
In partnership with the Vega Banjo Company of Boston, Peabody developed a new type of plectrum banjo called the Vegavox, featuring a resonator that rose the full height of the banjo's body. (Traditional resonators are about half as high.) This increased the banjo's interior resonation space, giving it a distinctively mellow tone.
Classic-fingerstyle banjo refers to a style of playing for the five-string banjo which penetrated popular culture in America and Great Britain in the period roughly defined as following the minstrel-show period and merging into the jazz age. [1] Some players of the genre can also be described for their activities in these other genres.
Tom Adams (born 1958) is an American bluegrass guitarist and banjo player. Adams began his career in 1969, playing banjo in his family bluegrass band in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania . In 1983 he joined Jimmy Martin 's Sunny Mountain Boys , and then became one of the Johnson Mountain Boys in 1986. [ 1 ]
Playing with Wiseman was Allen's first recording experience. Shelton got his first full-time job as a musician when he was sixteen playing with Jim Eanes; he was the banjo player on most of Eanes' Starday Records recordings. In the 1950s, Allen performed with Hack Johnson and the Tennesseans, and later, with Jim Eanes and Mac Wiseman. [2]