Maybe I'm the only one here old enough to remember him, but I regret his passing.
http://www.charter.net/news/read.php...org%3E&ps=1018
Maybe I'm the only one here old enough to remember him, but I regret his passing.
http://www.charter.net/news/read.php...org%3E&ps=1018
What was he doing still alive?
(Edit, after reading release) Ahh! He was younger then I thought he would have been. When I was eight I thought forty year old guys looked sixty, I guess.
I bought the Earl Scruggs bluegrass book and learnt me up a number of songs with a rented banjo back in the 70's. I sure wish I still had that sweet little banjo. A lot of what I learned from Scruggs, hammers and pull-offs and forward and backward roll picking patterns, went into my guitar playing later.
His desire to create and innovate beyond the traditional is pretty cool.
Last edited by swede; 03-28-2012 at 09:16 PM.
[QUOTE=George Cumby] ...every draft (Ted) would pick a solid, dependable, smart, athletically limited linebacker...the guy who isn't doing drugs, going to strip bars, knocking around his girlfriend or making any plays of game changing significance.
RIP Earl. I was blown away when I first heard heard the guy play. I'll never forget when I showed a friend who thought Eddie Van Halen was a god how Earl and Pete Seeger had been playing for years.
C.H.U.D.
Earl, Earl, meet my cousin Beryl!
Yes, when in Athens Greece; at little dance club, T for Texas T for that other state was on the juke box.
RHIP
He was just a kid.
88 is the new 30, ya know?
Got to see Earl several times. His sons played with him for many years. It was always cool to see what a great family they were. They would introduce different tunes with little stories. They would all say what a thrill it was to be playing with "DAD". They were just a shy, humble family that could pick like hell.
Earl's up in Hillbilly Heaven now.
Wonder if Bill Monroe will give him any of his back pay?