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Carroll Best: Old-Time 'Fiddle-Style Banjo' From The Great Smoky Mountains, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Excerpt: In an interview published in the February 1992 issue of The Banjo Newsletter and conducted by bluegrass historian Neil Rosenberg and banjo player and instruction book author Tony Trischka, Carroll Best conveyed the depth of his connections to the instrument he had mastered: “When I was old enough to pick up a banjo I wanted to play.”