Dink Roberts

James "Dink" Roberts (September 15, 1894 – August 30, 1989) was an American old-time banjo player.

As a young adult, Roberts worked as a tenant farmer, and became well-respected among both black and white field hands when he performed at dances among other types of gatherings.

[1] His archaic clawhammer picking style was "noticeably different (among other things, more rhythmically complex, i.e., 'syncopated', for lack of a better term)", compared to many of Roberts' contemporaries.

[3] Roberts was visited by Conway and Scott Odell to record him at his home in 1974; the results appear on the compilation album Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia.

[4] Occasionally, Roberts returned to performing, most notably he made an appearance at the Winter Folk Festival in 1976.