Since 1995, when his 15 years at The Houston Post ended with that paper’s demise, Steve Olafson has been the Houston Chronicle‘s man in Brazoria County. For a little more than a year, he has also been ...

Sarah Mae & The Birkeland Boys perform "Banjo Blues". Sarah Mae & The Birkeland Boys perform their original song "Bajno Blues" from their album It's Time.

At first glance Otis Taylor would seem to be marketed as a blues man mostly for lack of a better term. Certainly albums like his current don’t fit into any known blues scene in this, the ...

Japanese guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto started out as a banjo player in his home city of Kyoto, teaching himself to play by listening to the only bluegrass record he owned, Earl Scruggs’ “Foggy Mountain ...

Prolific, peripatetic and polymorphic, Eugene Chadbourne takes the banjo to places no one else has ever imagined. His madly expressive and acutely idiosyncratic grasp of the instrument has unlocked ...

It's safe to say, the four-string banjo is not one of the glamor instruments in jazz. There are a couple reasons for this: It's seldom used to solo. Let's face it-while we all talk about the ...

Boulder musician Otis Taylor always has been much more than your average bluesman. He wants to make audiences think as they listen, and his latest bid to do so happens Wednesday at Immersive Studios ...