Anton Robert "Bob" Yellin (born June 10, 1936) is an American banjo player and founding member of The Greenbriar Boys bluegrass music group.
This was supplemented by his exposure, in the weekly folk music gatherings in Greenwich Village's Washington Square Park, to the playing of other young banjoists such as Eric Weissberg and Roger Sprung.
[6] In 1958 Yellin and Mike Seeger performed at the Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention in Galax, Virginia, where the two shared second prize for their double-banjo rendition of "Old Joe Clark".
That same year, Yellin provided what one critic termed a "deft, innovative banjo accompaniment" for Paul Clayton's Elektra album Unholy Matrimony,[7] and in 1959 he collaborated with Mike Seeger on two tracks of the Folkways LP Mountain Music Bluegrass Style.
2 (1961, Vanguard) and on each of the group's own albums: Yellin’s instrument, used throughout his career, is a Gibson RB-4 flat-head banjo purchased, on the advice of Roger Sprung, at a New York music store in 1958 for $125.