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  • Wichita Sam March 30, 2012 at 8:40pm

    Was lucky enough to promote a Flatt and Scruggs concert my first year out of college in 1972.  Lost my butt, but they were true professionals and played an amazing program to a 1/4 sold out auditorium.  The best are good all the time....

  • Chris Tinker March 29, 2012 at 8:42am

    I think some flailing in homage is in order...

  • Vinylhed March 29, 2012 at 6:39am

    That's sad news. 

  • Mark March 29, 2012 at 6:37am

    A sad loss indeed.

    In the words of Steve Martin: "A grand part of American music owes a debt to Earl Scruggs. Few players have changed the way we hear an instrument the way Earl has, putting him in a category with Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Chet Atkins, and Jimi Hendrix."

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17546219

  • Ron "Oily" Sprague March 29, 2012 at 2:50am
    Double damn! Like perhaps many of you who were kids in the Sixties, I first heard the banjo on the intro song to the TV show, "The Beverly Hillbillies." I still have a secret love for the instrument, but can never bring myself to buy one. Maybe this will be the year. RIP, Earl.
  • turtlehead March 28, 2012 at 11:05pm

    Damn.  A true innovator. 

    Steve Martin's article from the New Yorker:

    http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/01/steve-martin-...

  • Clock The Wolf March 28, 2012 at 9:46pm

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