That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I’d been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn’t do anything to excite each other.
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I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.
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Birth: | 6th January, 1924 |
Death: | 28th March, 2012 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Musician |
Earl Eugene Scruggs was born in Cleveland County, North Carolina. He was an American musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a three-finger banjo-picking style that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. During his later years, he experimented with the electric banjo and helped expand the instrument's traditional bluegrass repertoire to include rock 'n' roll.
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