The banjo is typically reserved for folksy country songs, but the instrument can be pretty versatile (even if it still totally sounds like it should be on a folk song). These 11 bands channeled their ...

The legendary old-time blues artist Dock Boggs recorded just 12 songs between 1927 and 1929, and then sold his banjo when the Depression hit, giving up music until 1963 when Mike Seeger tracked him ...

Standout Track: No. 2, “Pretty Polly,” an England-by-way-of-Appalachia folk song about a murderous young man who kills his fiancée. The combination of clawhammer banjo and cello, along with the ...

Down South blues / arr. Dock Boggs -- Country blues / arr. Dock Boggs -- Pretty Polly -- Coal Creek march -- My old horse died / Dock Boggs -- Wild Bill Jones -- Rowan Country crew -- New prisoner's ...