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Carter Family picking, also known as the thumb brush, the Carter lick, the church lick, or the Carter scratch, [2] is a style of fingerstyle guitar named after Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family. It is a distinctive style of rhythm guitar in which the melody is played on the bass strings, usually low E, A, and D while rhythm strumming ...
Ronald Franklin Block (born July 30, 1964) is an American banjo player, guitarist, and singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the bluegrass band Alison Krauss & Union Station. He has won 14 Grammy Awards , 6 International Bluegrass Music Awards , a Country Music Association Award , and a Gospel Music Association Dove Award .
Mark Johnson (born May 20, 1955) is an American banjoist credited with creating a style of five string banjo playing called Clawgrass, which incorporates bluegrass and clawhammer banjo styles as well as bluegrass guitar styles and bluegrass ensemble techniques. [1]
His other grandfather promised to buy Shelor a real banjo if he learned to play two songs. [2] [4] Sam met the challenge, his grandfather bought him a Ventura banjo, and by age 10 Shelor was performing in local bands. [5] Shelor patterned his playing and career after J. D. Crowe, Earl Scruggs, and Sonny Osborne of The Osborne Brothers. [2]
"Dueling Banjos" is a bluegrass composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith.The song was composed in 1954 [2] by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos"; it contained riffs from Smith, recorded in 1955 playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player Don Reno.
Samuel Robert Gibson (November 16, 1931 – September 28, 1996) was an American folk singer and a key figure in the folk music revival in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His principal instruments were banjo and 12-string guitar.
Carl Eugene Jackson (born September 18, 1953 [1]) is an American country and bluegrass musician. Jackson's first Grammy was awarded in 1992 for his duet album with John Starling titled "Spring Training."
The reviewer said, "Mr. Wm. A. Huntley is the only banjo artist in the country that has ever made a success in white face." [24] Huntley was among the first to use the term classic banjo to describe his music. The phrase today means a style of playing the banjo bare fingered, picking out the notes with two fingers and a thumb.