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During his decades in country and bluegrass music, Oakland County resident Cranford ‘Ford’ Nix Sr. played with some of the genre’s superstars including George Jones, Flatt & Scruggs and Bill Monroe – ...

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Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...