RIP Earl Scruggs

One great picker God bless

 

RIP

A great musician.

Back in the sixties he was one of the "old timers" who bridged the age and political gap between young country musicians and the older ones. He helped the old school see that those long hairs were good musicians and good people. He didn't reject his son, he listened to him and, more importantly for music lovers, he played with his son and his son's friends.

Thank you Earl.

 

Sad day, but Earl will live on through the millions of musicians he has inspired.

 

Earl on Guitar and the Foggy Mountain with Mother Maybelle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA6jWj0bTi8"]Flatt and Scruggs with Maybelle Carter - You are my flower - YouTube

Earl and Doc Watson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUzVUNJKiDc"]Doc Watson & Earl Scruggs Play At Doc's Home - YouTube

Earl and the Byrds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWXulD-gxuw"]Earl Scruggs & The Byrds - Roger Mcguinn - YouTube

Earl in Washington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGDp--0SbX8&feature=relmfu"]Earl Scruggs Performs At Anti War Demonstration - YouTube

 

Another legends moves on to the other side. Maybe him and Hendrix are doing a psychedelic version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown right now.

 

^^ unfortunately, its not going to happen that way.

"So gather round and raise your pleasant voices
And enjoy that gospel bluegrass while you live.
It's hard to find a banjo player up in heaven
There's some things even Jesus won't forgive"

[noparse]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVrhaYjyLVo[/noparse]

BTW, I heard a rumor that Earl not only heard all of the jokes about banjo players, he wrote 62% of them.

(How does one create a link to youtube, without imbedding a viewer)

 

LOL, true.

Perfect Pitch........... When you toss an accordian in the dumpster and it lands on a banjo.

 

I saw him at the 1969 VietNam Moratorium march in 1969.This was after Flatt and Scruggs had dissolved their partnership, in part because of political and musical disagreements. Flatt preferred traditional bluegrass while Scruggs sought to take his playing in new directions, which he did with his sons in the Earl Scruggs Revue, whom I saw in concert in 1973 at the University of Virginia,opening for the Allman Brothers.
I recommend the DVD Earl Scruggs Bluegrass Legend. It traces his career, and gives us some fine performances with such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez,Doc Watson, and Bill Monroe.
Also,The High Lonesome Sound, the Story Of Bluegrass is recommended for how Scruggs' banjo style made bluegrass as we know it today, turning it from "the instrument of the clowns of country music" into the major part of bluegrass it is today.

 

The Byrds & Earl Scruggs Revue - You Aint Going Nowhere

 

The Best!

 

documentary

Earl Scruggs: OldTime Music At Its Greatest

 

Randy Scruggs died April 17, 2018.

Randy Scruggs - Wikipedia