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R.I.P. to a true music legend and innovator.
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
RIP.
Yep, R.I.P. Earl.
He could pick it.
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
He was a true legend.
School's out. What did you expect?
RIP Earl. The best banjo picker of all time.
Enjoy this if you've never seen it.
Earl Scruggs & Steve Martin - Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Best - YouTube
4 minutes of musical perfection.
When all is said and done more is said than done.
That was incredible. Thanks for sharing.
Steve Martin's not too bad himself..
School's out. What did you expect?
The Ballad of Jed Clampett, and Pearl Pearl Pearl (also from The Beverly Hillbillies) are tunes that I will always have in my head.
"don't you marry Lester Flatt, he slicks his hair with possum fat"
The man could pick it.
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand
Steve Martin might have missed his true calling. I can't get my toes to stop tapping.
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Here's a nice piece Steve Martin wrote back in January for New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...l-scruggs.html
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Anyone able to identify the other musicians playing? I gathered some from Letterman's comments: Marty Stuart on mandolin (Googled "Marty" "Mandolin"), Vince Gill the first electric guitar solo, Albert Lee (who I recognized from the Concert for George concert - easy enough to Google). Of course, Paul Shaffer on the piano.
I saw the Earl Scruggs Revue at a show at UC in their old fieldhouse. On the same bill were Pure Prairie League and also Emilylou Harris.
Folks are always surprised by how good Steve Martin is. Clearly he admired Scruggs.
I first became aware of bluegrass music through the collaboration put together by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Earl Scruggs. It really was a chance to bring together a great number of classic bluegrass performers. The first 3 record set of The Circle Be Unbroken is just a fine, fine album (as we'd say back then).
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Marty Stuart joined Lester Flatt's group, "The Nashville Grass", when he was about age 12. "The Nashville Grass" is the group Flatt formed in the early 1970s after he and Earl Scruggs broke up. Stuart, like everone else in that wonderful video, is a terrific musician...but there was only one Earl Scruggs.
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