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03-29-2012, 12:30 AM
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Earl Scruggs dead at 88
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03-29-2012, 07:06 AM
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Re: Earl Scruggs dead at 88
R.I.P. to a true music legend and innovator.
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03-29-2012, 07:47 AM
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Re: Earl Scruggs dead at 88
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indeed.
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03-29-2012, 07:57 AM
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Re: Earl Scruggs dead at 88
RIP.
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03-29-2012, 10:16 AM
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Re: Earl Scruggs dead at 88
Yep, R.I.P. Earl.
He could pick it.
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03-29-2012, 10:40 AM
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Please come again
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Re: Earl Scruggs dead at 88
He was a true legend.
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03-29-2012, 11:52 AM
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Yay!
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Re: Earl Scruggs dead at 88
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.
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03-29-2012, 12:30 PM
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Re: Earl Scruggs dead at 88
That was incredible. Thanks for sharing.
Steve Martin's not too bad himself..
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03-29-2012, 01:20 PM
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Re: Earl Scruggs dead at 88
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.
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03-29-2012, 02:45 PM
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03-29-2012, 03:03 PM
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Re: Earl Scruggs dead at 88
Steve Martin might have missed his true calling. I can't get my toes to stop tapping.
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03-29-2012, 04:15 PM
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Re: Earl Scruggs dead at 88
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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03-29-2012, 04:25 PM
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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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03-29-2012, 05:13 PM
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03-29-2012, 07:03 PM
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I was also told that a couple of the other musicians were Earl's sons, but that I'm not sure of.
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