MARYVILLE, Tenn. — If you think it would be hard to come up with the names of 42 awesome banjo players, you might be right. There's Earl Scruggs, J.D. Crowe, Sonny Osborne, Gina Furtado, Steve Martin, ...
Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...