However, banjo wasn't Young's first instrument. The Chicagoland native originally got into guitar at the age of five, which he accredits to The Monkees, a band from the late 1960s. "I just wanted to ...

When Beyoncé teased her country-tinged album Cowboy Carter last February, the first sound anyone heard was Rhiannon Giddens’ banjo. Giddens, who lent her distinctive instrument to the single ...