Recording in a mountain cabin. Natural reverb and bird accompaniment.

Recording my first album. All acoustic, all live, all mountain.

Busking on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The echoes off the mountains are natural reverb.

Clawhammer technique tutorial. The rhythmic downstroke that defines old-time banjo.

My banjo collection: A pre-war Gibson, a modern Deering, and a homemade fretless.

Scruggs-style three-finger picking breakdown. The technique that changed banjo forever.

Collaborating with a clogger. Banjo and percussive dance together.

How I build my setlists. There's actually a science to the song order.

The song that made me want to become a musician. Taking it apart note by note.

Appalachian folk songs that tell stories of these mountains.