Guitarists are always searching for new ways to express their musical ideas on the instrument. Be it a new chord voicing, scale, arpeggio, lick or riff, their attention is most often focused on the ...

Some years ago, I briefly toured the Midwest playing harmonica with Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys. Quite how an English teenager came to be there still mystifies me as much as it surely ...

LOWELL — They played songs like “Old Greasy Coat,” “Granny Will Your Dog Bite” and “Johnny Don’t Get Drunk.” American Idol it’s not. The Banjo & Fiddle Contest is a celebration of old-time music and ...

EGGLESTON, Va. (AP) - At the end of a road that goes from asphalt to gravel to dirt, Greg Galbreath crafts Appalachia’s instrument. Inside a homey woodshop, he’s bringing the story of an owl and mouse ...

In this lesson, I’d like to delve deeper into what I feel are the advantages of fingerpicking. There are so many sounds to be discovered when one gets away from using a pick. I like to incorporate ...