Dead of natural causes at the age of 88.
How about some Foggy Mountain Breakdown?
Flatt and Scruggs.
Earl Scruggs and Steve Martin.
"Men With Banjos, Who Know How To Use Them" another one from the Letterman show, Earl Scruggs, Steve Martin and others.
Foggy Mountain Breakdown/No Video.
http://heavens-gates.com/country/foggymountain.html
Finger picking good.
Paul in PA
saw that myself...I actually was surprised because I thought he was already gone...
Earl's rolls (riffs) on the banjo brought the instrument to a new level.
He was the man.
I got to meet Earl and his sons, "The Earl Scruggs Review" at a show in the Amphitheatre in Oklahoma City...probably '85 or '86. Mickey Flatts, a great musician I used to pick with was friends with the group.
I was honored to meet Earl and shake his hand. He'll definitely be missed but never forgotten.
Earl was the prototype that all other banjo pickers tried to emulate. There have been some that come close, JD Crowe comes to mind, but no one will ever take his place.
I'm also partial to The Ballad of Jed Clampett. It spent twenty weeks on the Billboard country singles charts, peaking at number one for three weeks and reached #44 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962.
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Sirius XM has him on the Bluegrass Junction channel a LOT today. (My preferred channel when not listening to Fox News.)
I've known that the world isn't Flatt, but now it isn't Scruggs neither....:-(
RIP Earl....Requiescat in pace et in amore
