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.
Earl Scruggs Quotes
He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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| Birth: | 6th January, 1924 |
| Death: | 28th March, 2012 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Musician |
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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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