Bound for Glory

A new generation of Black folk musicians are reclaiming an art form taken from them.

By Adam Bradley Photographs by Justin French
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TRAY WELLINGTON KNOWS that many will take the title of his 2022 album, “Black Banjo,” as an oxymoron. The banjo, and with it an entire body of folk-based music, is now so thoroughly associated with whiteness as to obscure its origins in Black musical...

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