By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the five-string banjo, outfitted with an elaborate, fretted neck, became a mainstay of ragtime, jazz, Dixieland ... the classic five-string banjo had ...

His wife, Fresh Air host Terry Gross, said the longtime contributor to The Village Voice and NPR had been living with emphysema and Parkinson's disease.

Milton Brown was born just west of Fort Worth in Stephenville in 1903. By 1927 Milton and his brother Derwood performed with a band called the Rock Island Rockets, and in 1930 the Brown brothers met ...