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music Enjoy some terrific bluegrass banjo from Steve Martin's band Andrea James

music Bluegrass with a washing machine as percussion Rob Beschizza

music Youtube artist SamuraiGuitarist does music from Final Fantasy VII Ken Snider

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animals Arizona javelina responds to complaints about golf course destruction: "I ate all your precious golf worms and I'd do it again" Jennifer Sandlin

Entertainment Disney World's Country Bear Jamboree to be revamped Ruben Bolling

A book about the rebellious history of the banjo Elías Villoro

animals Watch a swim-obsessed doggo explode with joy when he sees his new indoor pool Jason Weisberger

humans being kind Elk Range bluegrass band entertains folks stranded in the snow on Colorado's I-70 Jennifer Sandlin

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brooklyn Urban cowboy Kosha Dillz raps 'Happy Chinooka' with Gangstagrass in a Brooklyn dive bar Rusty Blazenhoff

music Remembering Sneaky Snake and Tom T. Hall Jennifer Sandlin

music Joe Bussard, historian of old-timey music and legendary 78 RPM record collector, RIP David Pescovitz

travel Take a trip to "The White Squirrel Capital of the World" Jennifer Sandlin

music Nobel laureate Bob Dylan publishing a new book about songs by Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, Nina Simone, and others David Pescovitz