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A List of Famous Banjo Players with photos! These are musicians who are masters of their craft. While it is often the singers who claim all the fame, these musicians are famous in their own right. As time has past and music evolved, the list of musical instruments available has grown, especially with the advent of the digital age. While the vocalist may have his lyrics, it is the musicians behind him, who truly make the sound. After all, instrumentals are as popular as ever, but acappellas are few and far between. Best of all, with our modern recording technology, we will be able to enjoy these artists for centuries if not millennia!

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Rank   Name Genre(s) Albums Nationality Labels
  1. 1
    Americana, Old-time music
    Song of the Traveling Daughter / Here in This Room, The Sparrow Quartet, Song of the Traveling Daughter, City of Refuge More
    United States of America
  2. 2
    Bluegrass
    Blue Ridge Express
  3. 3
    Americana, Jazz, Bluegrass
    Twilight Motel, Look Left, Stolen Moments, Replay, Quartet, Simple Pleasures, Best of the Vanguard Years, Stolen Moments, The Company You Keep, Evergreen, Out of the Blue, Fair Weather, Vanguard Visionaries More
    Vanguard Records, Compass Records
  4. 4

    Allen Shelton

  5. 5

    Andy Irivne

  6. 6

    Arthur Smith

    Here Comes the Boogie Man
    United States of America
  7. 7

    B. F. Shelton

  8. 8
    Folk music of Ireland
  9. 9
    Smoky Mountain Ballads
    United States of America
  10. 10
    Alternative rock, Alternative country, Experimental rock, Indie rock, Funk-rock, Electronic rock, Anti-folk, Lo-fi music, Country-rap More
    Mutations, Steve Threw Up, Guero, Lollipop, Odelay (Deluxe Edition), Nicotine & Gravy, Golden Feelings, Gameboy Variations (Hell Yes EP), Original Soundtrack 2:Keith, Mellow Gold, One Foot in the Grave, We Like Folk...Who Cares...Destroy Us, Cellphone's Dead, Loser, Where It's At, Devils Haircut, Beercan, Mixed Bizness, Stereopathetic Soulmanure, Electric Music for the Kool People, Tropicalia, The Information Deluxe (disc 1), Odelay, A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight, Beck.com B-Sides, Guerolito, Beck, Timebomb, The New Pollution, Deadweight, Sissyneck, Midnite Vultures, Mellow Gold Tour Sampler, Frontin' on Debra, Cold Brains, Hit Singles, Nobody's Fault But My Own, The Information, Jack-Ass, Modern Guilt, Stray Blues, Devils Haircut, Quodlibet , Chemtrails, Pay No Mind (Snoozer), Sea Change, Sexx Laws, Beck, Like the Beer, E-Pro, Sissyneck, Midnite Vultures, Banjo Story, Stray Blues: A Collection of B-Sides, A Brief Overview, The New Pollution and Other Favorites, Girl, Don't Get Bent Out of Shape, Youthless, O Menina, BECK Tribute - Greatful Sound, It's All in Your Mind, 1992 Demo, Metal Demos More
    United States of America
    Interscope Records, Geffen Records, DGC Records, XL Recordings, Bong Load Custom Records More
  11. 11
    United States of America
  12. 12
    Folk music, Jazz fusion, Jazz, World music, Bluegrass, Progressive bluegrass More
    Inroads, Places, Tabula Rasā, Tales From the Acoustic Planet, Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions, The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Volume 2, Drive, Double Time, The Enchantment, The Melody of Rhythm, Natural Bridge, Drive, Daybreak, Throw Down Your Heart: Africa Sessions, Part 2, Deviation, Crossing the Tracks, Perpetual Motion, The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2, Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From the Acoustic Planet, Volume 3: Africa Sessions More
    United States of America
  13. 13

    Ben Eldridge

  14. 14
    Rock music, Country
    Natural Progressions, Mirror
    United States of America
    Asylum Records
  15. 15
    Country, Bluegrass
    United States of America
  16. 16

    Bill Lowrey

  17. 17
    Comedy
    Live Down Under 1995, Live - In Concert!, The Great Billy Connolly, The Big Yin: Billy Connolly in Concert, Musical Tour of Scotland, Comedy & Songs, Transatlantic Years, D.I.V.O.R.C. E / Cuckoo, The Pick of Billy Connolly, Classic Connolly, Cop Yer Whack for This, Live at the Odeon Hammersmith London, Get Right Intae Him, Classic Connolly in Words and Music, Billy Connolly's Musical Tour of New Zealand, Raw Meat for the Balcony, Billy and Albert, Live!, Solo Concert, Highlights and Footlights, Atlantic Bridge More
    United Kingdom, Scotland, Scottish people
  18. 18

    Billy Whitlock

    United States of America
  19. 19

    Bob Carlin

    The Fun of Open Discussion, Banging & Sawing
  20. 20
    United States of America
  21. 21
    Rock music, Heavy metal, Alternative country, Rockabilly, Progressive metal, Sludge metal, Groove metal More
  22. 22

    Buck Trent

    Country
    United States of America
  23. 23
    Rock music, Hard rock, Progressive rock, Jazz fusion, Heavy metal, Folk rock, Ambient music, Jazz, Thrash metal, Alternative metal, Experimental rock, Funk-rock, Funk, Speed metal, Noise rock, Country rock, Progressive metal, Acoustic music, Electronic dance music, Electronica, Bluegrass, Funk metal, Industrial metal, Avant garde metal, Dark ambient, Instrumental rock, Avant-garde music, Shred guitar More
    Bucketheadland Blueprints, Bucketheadland: Island of Lost Minds, Funnel Weaver, Crime Slunk Scene, Intelligence Failure, The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell, In Search of The, Kevin's Noodle House, Slaughterhouse on the Prairie, In Search of the (F), In Search of the (R), Monster and Robots, Monsters and Robots, Secret Recipe, Bolt on Neck, One Less Thing to Worry About, Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud, Enter the Chicken, Shadows Between the Sky, In Search of the (T), Captain Eo's Voyage, It's Alive, The Day of the Robot, Inbred Mountain, This That and the Other, Pandemoniumfromamerica, Unison, Bucketheadland, Disembodied, Torn From Black Space, Cyborg Slunks, Super Diorama Theater, Monolith, From the Coop, Needle in a Slunk Stack, Untitled, Empty Space, Bermuda Triangle, Forensic Follies, Giant Robot NTT, KFC Skin Piles, Transmutation, Collection, A Taste of Mutation, Zurich, The Black Album, In Search of the (E), In Search of The, At All, Spinal Clock, Six String Giant, Giant Robot, The 13th Scroll, I Need 5 Minutes Alone, Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot, Albino Slug, In Search of the (H), In Search of the (E...), Lightyears, Dreamatorium, Chicken Noodles, Tunnel, Pepper's Ghost, Somewhere over the Slaughterhouse, A Real Diamond in the Rough, In Search of the (I), Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present: The Friendliest Psychosis of All, Left Hanging, Happy Holidays from Buckethead, Bucketheadland 2, Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse, DCK, Recent Forgeries, In Search of the (C), Electric Tears, The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock, Acoustic Shards, In Search of the (H), In Search of the (A), Giant Robot, Kind Regards, Colma, Young Buckethead Vol. 1, Young Buckethead Vol. 2, Chicken Noodles II, Look Up There, The Other Parade, In Search of the (O), In Search of the (N), Best Regards, Brain as Hamenoodle, Underground Chamber, Devil Dub, Population Override, Live , Heaven & Hell, Reunion, Kaleidoscalp, In Search of the (S) More
    United States of America
    Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, Virgin Records, TDRS Music, Higher Octave, Serjical Strike Records More
  24. 24

    Buell Kazee

  25. 25
    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, It's Just My Funny Way of Laughin', The Wayfaring Stranger, The Wayfaring Stranger, Walt Disney Presents Burl Ives' Animal Folk, 20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection: The Best of Burl Ives, Christmas at the White House, Songs of the West, Australian Folk Songs, Down to the Sea in Ships, Greatest Hits, Have a Holly Jolly Christmas, Christmas Day in the Morning, Historical America in Song, Scouting Along With Burl Ives, Burl Ives Presents America's Musical Heritage, The Best of Burl Ives, Lavender Blue: Songs of Charm, Humour & Sincerity, Christmas Album, Chim Chim Cheree, Have a Holly Jolly Christmas, The Return of the Wayfaring Stranger, America's Favorite Balladeer, Riders in Sky, Burl Ives Sings... For Fun, A Little Bitty Tear: The Nashville Years 1961-1965, Songs From the Big Rock Candy Mountain, The Times They Are A-Changin', The Versatile Burl Ives!, Burl Ives and the Korean Orphan Choir Sing of Faith and Joy, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Burl Ives, Uforglemmelige Klassikere, America's Folk Singer: Burl Lives, America's Folk Singer, Burl Ives: In Memoriam, Burl Ives Sings Pearly Shells and Other Favorites, Christmas by the Bay, Burl Ives Sings Little White Duck and Other Children's Favorites More
    United States of America

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