Don Wayne Reno

Musician · b. 1963 · Roanoke, Virginia
Best known for Banjo

Don Wayne Reno is a banjo player who grew up inside one of the instrument’s defining styles — his father was Don Reno — and has spent his career moving between his father’s repertoire and much louder company.

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  • Born in 1963 in Roanoke, Virginia, he played in his father’s band and later with his brothers as the Reno Brothers.
  • Don Reno’s single-string and chord-melody approach is among the hardest banjo styles to carry forward, and his sons are the main line of it.
  • He has been a longtime member of Hayseed Dixie, the band that plays AC/DC and other rock repertoire as bluegrass — a joke that only works because the playing is serious.
  • In this catalog he appears on Don Reno and Reno Brothers recordings.

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