Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Matt Munisteri is a Brooklyn native who grew up as almost assuredly the only bluegrass banjo player on his block. His lifelong interest in early American music led him from Country and Ragtime guitar, through Blues, to Tin Pan Alley and Jazz � all by the eighth grade. His own compositions and playing reflect this life-long devotion to the history of American Popular song � linking rural and urban, long gone and contemporary.