Earl is dead !!!!

[arbor]

Scuggs dies at 88
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 – Earl Scruggs, 88, an ace banjo player, died Wednesday at a Nashville hospital of natural causes. He was noted for perfecting and popularizing a three-finger banjo-picking style along with being in Bill Monroe's band and in the duo Flatt & Scruggs.
Scruggs was born in North Carolina on Jan. 6, 1924.

Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in 1945, but 3 years later, joined with fellow Blue Grass Boys Lesster Flatt to form the Foggy Mountain Boys.

The duo later were known as Flatt & Scruggs, playing together until they broke up in 1969. They had also later known simply as Flatt and Scruggs. They had a big hit along with Jerry Scoggins on "The Ballad of Jed Clampett.

In 1969, they won a Grammy for Scruggs' instrumental Foggy Mountain Breakdown. They broke up that same year with Scruggs forming the Earl Scruggs Revue, featuring several of his sons.

Scruggs continued recording and playing for the rest of his life. In 2002, he won a second Grammy for a 2001 recording of Foggy Mountain Breakdown. The track featured Steve Martin on 2nd banjo solo, Vince Gill and Albert Lee on electric guitar solos, Paul Shaffer on piano, Leon Russell on organ, and Marty Stuart on mandolin

[ilipus]

its really triste de to learn this triste new alors qu'on ne s'y waiting pas du tout. This banjo player, a man in fully force de l'âge... what dommage, and surtout, what perte for tous ceux who has learning to play banjo through him, and grâce à him....

[Dominique FOSSE]

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[Réjane]

[RésoMan]

[Mandochris]

[round2am]

2 programmes radio (US) en hommage à notre maître à tous.


http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/03/29/earl-scruggs

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/28/149577190 ... dium=email


bonne écoute, Sophie

[arbor]

J'avais pas vu qu'il y avait déjà un topic ouvert !!!!!!

[ilipus]

ouais, pis moi qui bite rien en rossbeaf, j'ai cru que tu nous invitais à ton anniversaire