The Picky Fingers Banjo Podcast

Mar 18 2025 168 ep. 66 mins 228
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The world's top podcast for banjo players, fans, and enthusiasts! Hosted by Keith Billik; listen to interviews with professional players, playing tips, and equipment discussions. Contact the show at [email protected]

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#157 - Graham Sharp

Mar 18 2025 72 mins  
www.patreon.com/banjopodcast Graham Sharp is a prolific, award-winning banjo player, singer, and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the Steep Canyon Rangers, as well as several of his own solo records. One constant of the Rangers' sound through the years is the presence of Graham's expert banjo picking, whether that means hot licks on a fast bluegrass tune, tasteful s

#156 - Mike Munford (Re-Mix of Episode #16 from November 2018)

Mar 07 2025 74 mins  
www.patreon.com/banjopodcast It's a Re-mixed episode! The new-and-improved version of this classic interview with the great Mike Munford. Mike is best known for his recordings and performances with Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, as a banjo setup guru, and an afficionado of prewar Gibson flathead banjos. His thrilling style of playing earned him the 2013 IBMA Banjo Player of the y

#155 - Bob Carlin

Feb 28 2025 88 mins  
www.patreon.com/banjopodcast Bob Carlin is among the world's top innovators and prolific performers of clawhammer banjo, and is best known for his solo recordings, collaborations with artists such as Bruce Molsky, Cheick Hamala Diabate, John Hartford, Erynn Marshall, and as a longtime member of the legendary Hartford String Band. He also enriches the banjo world through his subst

#154 - Tim Ellis

Feb 13 2025 66 mins  
www.patreon.com/banjopodcast This episode features Tim Ellis, a wonderful bluegrass banjoist best known for his years performing & recording with Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys. He has also worked as a sideman for various other professional groups and recording sessions, and released an album under his own name titled "Banjo Serenade." Sponsored by Elderly Instruments, Peghe

#153 - ToneDexter WaveMap Shootout!

Jan 29 2025 67 mins  
www.patreon.com/banjopodcast Today we have a follow-up episode to #152, which featured the engineers behind the innovative ToneDexter product, by Audio Sprockets. In this one, host Keith Billik demonstrates what ToneDexter can do, by programming wavemaps using every combination of 3 different banjo pickups (by K&K, Schatten, and EMG) and 5 different microphones (by Rode, Behringer,

BONUS - Fireside Chat w/ Bob Black: Stories of Bill Monroe

Dec 24 2024 55 mins  
www.patreon.com/banjopodcast This Bonus episode is a recording of a "Fireside Chat" session from the 2024 Great Lakes Music Camp, featuring legendary banjoist (and Bluegrass Boy) Bob Black! Bob shares his stories and experiences of his time playing and working for Bill Monroe in the mid-1970's. Contact the show: [email protected] Bob Black on the web: www.banjoy.

#152 - ToneDexter! Feat. James May & Josh Bennett

Dec 07 2024 86 mins  
www.patreon.com/banjopodcast This episode will tell you everything you want to know about ToneDexter, an innovative product from Audio Sprockets for live acoustic musicians that gives you the tone of a microphone, with the simplicity of using a pickup! Here to discuss that, as well as ToneDexter's many other features, are James May and Josh Bennett, the engineers and developers b

#151 - Bob Black

Nov 22 2024 84 mins  
www.patreon.com/banjopodcast Bob Black is a legendary bluegrass banjoist, best known for performing & recording with Bill Monroe, Kenny Baker, William Lawson, his current band Banjoy, and many others! He is a true master of the traditional bluegrass style, and was an innovator of the melodic style of playing fiddle tunes on banjo. He is also an author, and has written several boo

#150 - Brad Campbell

Oct 23 2024 74 mins  
www.patreon.com/banjopodcast Brad Campbell began playing professionally when he was just a teenager, and went on to tour, record, and perform with bands such as Gary Adams & the Bluegrass Gentlemen, Wendy Smith & Blue Velvet, and finally landed his dream gig playing with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Brad is the very definition of hard-driving bluegrass banjo with huge tone and imp

#149 - Jens Kruger (Remix of Episode #26 from May 2019)

Sep 17 2024 74 mins  
www.patreon.com/banjopodcast This episode is a new-and-improved remix of Episode #26 from May of 2019, featuring banjo phenom Jens Kruger. Jens is the longtime banjoist and composer with acclaimed bluegrass group The Kruger Brothers, and has inspired a generation of musicians with his dazzling, inventive, and soulful playing. He is also an innovator in banjo design, and works in