Tag Archives: Earl Scruggs
Bluegrass: Country Soul
1971 was a banner year for bluegrass music. It had come of age the decade before, following its invention as a musical style by Bill Monroe in the mid-1940s. Little known, except by country music fans for its first twenty … Continue reading
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Tagged albert idhe, bluegrass, documentary film, Earl Scruggs, jimmy martin, mac wiseman, ralph stanley
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The Origins of Bluegrass Music
I think Bill Monroe might have hired Stringbean more as a comedian to break the ice than for his banjo picking. Either that or because he was a good shortstop! Many early bluegrass bands had at least one member who did the rube comic act . . . a relic from minstrel and medicine show times. Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Lomax, Bill Monroe, bluegrass, Earl Scruggs, five string banjo, Folk Music, music history, old time music, Radio, vaudeville
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Visiting Earl Scruggs
. . . He went down the hall and quickly came back, holding an old Gibson open-back banjo. “This belonged to Uncle Dave . . . here, play me a tune!” Continue reading
Posted in General, Ramblings
Tagged banjo, Bill Monroe, bluegrass, country music, Earl Scruggs, Gibson, old time music, Peter Feldmann, Uncle Dave Macon
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