Having acquired his first real instrument, a fiddle, when he was twelve, Leroy Troy found his first banjo at age thirteen on a junk truck at a flea market. His banjo style is the claw-hammer or frailing style, distinct from more commonly found Scruggs style banjo playing in modern bluegrass. Leroy often performs humorous or comedy songs from the old-time music genre. He debuted on the Grand Ole Opry in 1988 and was the U.S. National Old-Time Banjo Champion in 1996. Troy is known as "the Tennessee Slicker" and plays with the Tennessee Mafia Jugband and Marty Stuart.
