Early American banjo music is Black music, developed by enslaved Africans and rooted in Black culture through the early 1800s ...

Initially formed as a mountain dulcimer group, members soon began to add other instruments such as guitar, banjo and fiddles, ...

He’s a big, bearded dude — 6-foot-2, 260 pounds, he says — with a high-pitched, twangy voice that’s like a plucked banjo string. He’s wearing a black golf shirt with the company logo ...