Plenty of musicians admired Chicago’s axeman Terry Kath, who really delivers here. This is a two-part song, and the first half is a long instrumental that finds Chicago in uncharacteristicpower-triomode – no horns, not even piano. Kath begins with a strummed lick that’s almost banjo-lik...
The song ambles along at an easy pace, its midtempo groove, gently plucking banjo and tasteful guitar delivering the feeling that it-will-all-work-out more than the self-lacerating but hopeful lyrics. Crutchfield wrote the song and sings lead but Lenderman’s contribution perfects it, his ...
Banjo players only. Who are the best musicians to have ever played the banjo? The banjo is a four or five stringed instrument once created by Africans in Colonial America that is most closely associated with bluegrass, folk, country, and traditional Irish music. A mainstay of old-time ...
Also ranks #62 on The Best Banjo Players in the World Also ranks #66 on The Greatest Rock Guitarists of the 1970s Also ranks #102 on The Greatest Rock Songwriters Of All Time 5 R. Carlos Nakai 141 votes R. Carlos Nakai, a renowned Native American flutist, redefined the boundaries of ...
whereupon she expanded her repertoire into fingerpicking guitar and clawhammer banjo. You can hear all those influences in her newest album,Hear My Call. Life on the road figures heavily on a number of cuts, no doubt impacted by the six straight months she spent traveling across the country on...
Heralded by Natalie Maines’ twangy yelps and pace-quickening arrangements of banjo, violin, and guitar, the trio fight against domestic standards, instead painting relationships with men as dangerous, limiting, and boring. “Goodbye Earl,” which tells the story of two best friends who murder an...
Hidden Gem:“Julianna Calm Down,”from The Chicks’ underrated 2020 studio returnGaslighter, carries an affecting message that’s highlighted byAntonoff’s unobtrusive production, flecked with viola, violin, banjo and organ. —J. Lipshutz
Zimmer famously made use of (and was personally responsible for trashing!) a broken pubpianoin his soundtrack to Guy Ritchie’sSherlock Holmesremake. With a score marked for a banjo, cimbalom and ‘squeaky violins’, Zimmer described his soundtrack to Ritchie as "the sound of The Pogues joi...
Also ranks #53 onThe Best Southern Gospel Bands/Artists 38 Charlie Poole 10 votes Born in Spray, now Eden, North Carolina, Charlie Poole was an early pioneer of old-time country music. As the leader of the North Carolina Ramblers, Poole's innovative three-finger banjo playing and expressive...
This was the Giddens show of anyone’s dreams, matching her banjo plucking to a massive swell of strings that transformed songs both familiar and not so much so. The traditional Black folk song “Waterboy,” for instance, which Giddens has usually sung a cappella, felt less stern and more...