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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 .
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Carl Jackson:Banjo Player (1973,Capitol) Old Friends (1978,Capitol) Banjo Man:A Tribute To Earl Scruggs (1981,Sugarhill) Mississippi Homecoming (1981) Song of the South (1982,Sugarhill) Banjo Hits (1983,Sugarhill) with Jim & Jesse; Spring Training (1991,Sugarhill) with John Starling & The Nash Ramblers 'Neath The Oaks in the Grove (1993)
"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.
He, along with Emory Lester was nominated by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) for a 2007 Instrumental Album of the Year award. [2] and presented with the 2012 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. [3] He is a spokesman for the Deering Banjo Co., which named two Clawgrass model banjos after him. [4]
His most successful song is "Gentle on My Mind", which won three Grammy Awards and was listed in "BMI's Top 100 Songs of the Century". [2] [3] Hartford performed with a variety of ensembles throughout his career, and is perhaps best known for his solo performances where he would interchange the guitar, banjo, and fiddle from song to song. [4]
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. He often performs humorous or comedy songs from the old-time music genre.
Between 1868 and 1870 he was reported to have opened a music-teaching academy in Providence in which he gave banjo socials once a week, his "first attempt at edging the banjo into high society." [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] However, he was not listed in the Providence, Rhode Island city directory from 1866 to 1869.