The String
Remember that kid in Deliverance? Did you check out his banjo's resonance? Dean Markley Banjo strings, of course. So the next time you're goin' to Alabamy with your banjo on your knee . . . . take us along.

The Experience
I’ll admit I was a little nervous before my first banjo lesson.

My instructor was a well-known player, someone who I had admired for years. He’d recently moved to the area, and I jumped at the opportunity to sign up for lessons. It had seemed like a good idea at the time, but as I stood outside the door to his studio, I felt I had made a mistake. A player of his caliber wouldn’t want to spend his time More…