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Check out Professor Taylor Hagood's interview as part of the podcast News from the Peak. The  episode is titled "Taylor Hagood on Stringbean, Persistence, and the Problem of Cutting a New Path."

An excerpt from the description on the :

On this episode of News from the Peak, we talk to Professor Taylor Hagood about Stringbean and the work—the very real and often quite fragile work—of writing a book about someone who has tended [to] be seen as only important in death.

Hagood is as engaging a speaker as he is a writer. A professor of literature at ÎÔÁú×ÊÔ´Íø., Hagood has a distinguished career as a scholar of William Faulkner, among other writers, and is a teacher and lecturer of no small renown.

Alongside all of that, he somehow finds time to perform magic and sing and play piano and banjo. A skilled visual artist and craftsman, he recently built a banjo that uses the same resonator as the one most closely associated with Stringbean (the Vega #9 Tubaphone) and closely follows it in other elements of its design.   []