Question: What banjoist recorded a number of songs at the "Big Bang" of modern country music?

Context articles: Ward Thomas (band)
KSCS
Bad Boy (Big Bang song)
B. F. Shelton
Bristol sessions
Big Bang Baby
Bae Bae
Lies (Big Bang song)
Orthophonic Joy
List of songs written by G-Dragon

Ward Thomas are a British modern country music duo, composed of 23 year old twin sisters Catherine and Lizzy Ward Thomas (born 28 March 1994) from Hampshire.
 The band has been called "Britain's first country stars".
 Along with The Shires, they are producing modern country music with a British twist in a genre dominated by American singers and bands.
 Fellow country singer, Crissie Rhodes of The Shires, describes their music as written "from a British perspective.
 While people have been able to appreciate the American sound, they can connect with the themes of British lyrics."
 Cartwheels their second studio album became the first album by a UK country act to reach number One on the UK Albums Chart surpassing the previous record by The Shires.
 It has since gone silver in the UK.
KSCS (96.3 MHz) is an FM station which serves the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex in Texas.
 The station transmits a modern country music format on its FM signal.
 96.3 KSCS is also the home of 'Hawkeye and Dorsey', currently the longest running morning radio show in the Dallas - Fort Worth area.
 The show features Terry Dorsey, a member of the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame, and Mark "Hawkeye" Louis.
 The duo has won numerous awards including "Billboard" Magazine's Major Market Air Personalities of 1998 and the Academy of Country Music's 2008 Personalities of the Year.
 The pair teamed up in July 1988.
 KSCS was named "2009 Major Market Radio Station of the Year" by the Academy of Country Music.
"Bad Boy" is a single by South Korean group Big Bang.
 It was released on February 29, 2012 by YG Entertainment, as the second single from their EP "Alive".
 The track's R&B and hip hop sound was acclaimed by music critics, that consider it one of Big Bang's best songs.
 "Bad Boy" peaked at number two on South Korean's Gaon Digital Chart.
Benjamin Frank Shelton (January 1, 1902 – February 28, 1963) was an American singer and banjoist who recorded a number of songs for Victor Records at the Bristol Sessions in Bristol, Tennessee on July 29, 1927.
 Shelton traveled from Corbin, Kentucky where he worked as a barber to Bristol for the sessions with gospel singer and preacher Alfred Karnes.
 Four of the recordings survive today, "Darling Cora", "Pretty Polly", "Oh Molly Dear" and "Cold Penitentiary Blues".
 He recorded again, under the name Frank Shelton, for Columbia Records at the Johnson City Sessions in Johnson City, Tennessee in October 1928, but the recordings were not issued and have not survived.
The Bristol Sessions are considered the "Big Bang" of modern country music.
 They were held in 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee by Victor Talking Machine Company producer Ralph Peer.
 Bristol was one of the stops on a two-month, $60,000 trip that took Peer through several major southern cities and yielded important recordings of blues, ragtime, gospel, ballads, topical songs, and string bands.
 The Bristol Sessions marked the commercial debuts of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family.
 As a result of the influence of these recording sessions, Bristol has been called the "birthplace of country music".
 Since 2014, the town has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum.
"Big Bang Baby" is a song featured on "Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop", the third album by the band Stone Temple Pilots.
 It was the first single to be released on the album, followed by "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" and "Lady Picture Show."
 It reached #28 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay.
 It was also a rock hit, reaching #1 on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
 The song features an upbeat riff and chorus, which pays homage to the musical style of the 1970s.
 "Big Bang Baby" also appears on the greatest hits album "Thank You".
"Bae Bae" is a song recorded by South Korean boy band Big Bang.
 It was released digitally on May 1, 2015 by YG Entertainment, as the first single from "Made", being included in the single album "M", the first music release alongside "Loser" for the band since "Still Alive" (2012).
 Written and produced by G-Dragon, Teddy and T.O.P, "Bae Bae" was noted for its sexual lyrics and music video.
 The song finished 2015 as the fourth best performing song of the year on the Gaon Digital's year-end chart, making Big Bang the first act to have three songs in the Top 5 year-end chart.
"Lies" (Hangul: 거짓말 ; RR: "Geojitmal " ) is a song recorded by the South Korean boy band Big Bang.
 The song was written and composed by rapper G-Dragon.
 It was released on August 16, 2007 by YG Entertainment as the first single from Big Bang's first extended play "Always" (2007).
 It became the group's breakout hit, topping charts in their home country for several weeks and consequently winning Song of the Year at the 2007 Mnet Asian Music Awards.
 The song remains one of their most critically acclaimed song to date and is often view as one of their signature songs.
Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited is a double-CD produced by Grammy Award-winner Carl Jackson, a Bluegrass and Country music artist, as a benefit for the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, Tennessee.
 The project was conceived by executive producer Rusty Morrell, a Bristol native who was well acquainted with the story of the historic 1927 Bristol Sessions and imagined a modern tribute to the sessions that have been dubbed the 'big bang' of Country Music.
 The project includes 37 tracks - 18 songs and 19 spoken word tracks that provide context.
 WSM disc jockey and country music historian Eddie Stubbs narrates the project, and a who's who of country artists recorded the new versions of the old classics.
 Jackson recorded the album between 2013 and 2015.
 It was released by Sony Legacy Recordings on May 12, 2015.
G-Dragon is a South Korean rapper, musician, and leader of K-pop band Big Bang.
 G-Dragon started in the entertainment industry at 6 years old as part of a kids singing group Little Roora.
 When Little Roora disbanded, he spent over 11 years in total bouncing around different labels in Korea until he found fame with Big Bang in 2006.
 G-Dragon is widely known to be the main composer and producer of the group, penning almost all of the group's major hits, including "Lies", "Last Farewell", and "Haru Haru" - one of the most digitally downloaded songs in Korean music history.
 Korea Times has called him a "genius singer-songwriter", citing his songs became instant hits and an anthem for young people around the country.
 In 2008, at age 20, G-Dragon was the youngest to be awarded The 10 Greatest Korean Composers.
 He was named the Top Songwriter of 2012 by Melon.
 As of August 2017, the Korea Music Copyright Association has 170 songs listed under his name.
 As of 2017, G-Dragon has written 22 number one songs.