Tina Steffey

As Tina Trianosky she added clawhammer banjo to two instrumentals, “Mississippi Sawyer” and “Black Mountain Rag,” on the guitarist Clay Jones’s first solo album, Mountain Tradition (Rural Rhythm, 2005), on which Adam Steffey played mandolin. She and Adam Steffey played on Close Kin: A Reunion of Bluegrass and Old-Time Music (Mountain Roads, 2011), a collection that paired bluegrass and old-time players, on tracks including “Little Bird of Heaven,” “Chilly Winds” and “Sugar Hill.”

On New Primitive (Organic, July 2013), an album of fiddle tunes and old songs, she plays clawhammer on seven tracks, with Adam Steffey on mandolin, Barry Bales on bass, Zeb Snyder on guitar and Eddie Bond and Samantha Snyder on fiddle. Her banjo opens the record on “Johnny Don’t Get Drunk,” and she and Samantha Snyder share the opening of “Squirrel Hunter”; she also plays on “Raleigh and Spencer,” “Cluck Old Hen” and “Big Eyed Rabbit.” In April 2025 she played clawhammer on Gena Britt’s Mountain Home single “Goodbye to the Blues,” a song by Marshall Wilborn, recreating Lynn Morris’s banjo part from the original recording.