Jessie Baker poses in Gibson’s workshop in Nashville, Tenn., with a banjo that was made for Terry Baucom.
Teenage banjo wiz Jessie Baker is the newest member of Michael Cleveland’s band, Flamekeeper.
A former resident of Martinsville, Ind., just down the road a piece from the famed Bill Monroe Memorial Bluegrass Park and Campground in Bean Blossom, [...]

The Baker Boys. Photo by Michael Stewart.
If you caught Karl Shifflet’s Big Country Show last summer on the Midwest bluegrass festival circuit, chances are you saw banjo wiz-kid Jessie Baker perform. He spent a stint on the road with Shifflet’s band. Not bad if you’re 17.
What you might not have seen was his brother, [...]