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Robin Roller

Robin Roller is a bluegrass banjo player, teacher, and author. She was a founding member of Petticoat Junction, an all-woman bluegrass band formed in Nashville in 1988 by guitarist and singer Andrea Campbell, with fiddler Gail Rudisill and bassist Gena Britt. The band recorded three albums and performed through the 1990s before disbanding in 1998. She wrote the instructional book-and-CD package Starting Bluegrass Banjo: The Definitive Step-by-Step Guide to Playing 5-String Bluegrass Banjo, published in 2005.

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