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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.
The Briggs Banjo Method, considered to be the first banjo method and which taught the stroke style of playing, also mentioned the existence of another way of playing, the guitar style. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Alternatively known as "finger style", the new way of playing the banjo displaced the stroke method, until by 1870 it was the dominant style. [ 42 ]
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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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 ...
James V. "Jimmy" Henley (September 2, 1963 – March 22, 2020) was an American banjo player who played bluegrass music.He won several banjo contests as a young boy. As a young boy he met country music star Roy Clark at the New Mexico State Fair and Clark invited him to perform on National television.
"Banjo" Bill Cornett (1890–1960) was a traditional folk singer and banjo player from Eastern Kentucky. Cornett was born on July 2, 1890, in Knott County, Kentucky . His music was recorded by John Cohen for Folkways and appears on the album Mountain Music of Kentucky .
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.