[78-L] Earl Scruggs has died

[Erwin Kluwer]

Bill and Earl was a match made in heaven...

And of course Bill made ANYBODY better who played with him...

Erwin

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:08 PM, David Sanderson <
dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> On 3/29/2012 2:44 PM, Erwin Kluwer wrote:
> > RIP Earl!
> >
> > Few musicians were as influential as Earl..
> >
> > On par with Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Blind lemon Jefferson, Chuck
> > Berry, Bill Monroe,,,,
> >
> > Erwin
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>
>  wrote:
> >
> >> The legendary bluegrass musician was 88. No one person was more
> >> influential on an instrument than Scruggs was on the five-string banjo.
> >>
> >> Cary Ginell
>
> Influential, yes, but interesting in that he was not a leader and
> creator like Monroe and others. I suppose a good comparison is Chet
> Atkins, or Merle Travis. Scruggs took the indigenous three-finger banjo
> style he learned in North Carolina and turned it into a polished,
> sophisticated way of playing.
>
> His final steps toward the style seem to have been taken when he was
> first with Bill Monroe - there are live recordings of him at that time
> where his smooth flow of notes has yet to appear. And I wonder how much
> Monroe himself had to do with developing Scruggs - Bill was very much a
> teacher and maestro to the musicians who worked with him, always. And
> there is partly the question of timeliness - without a venue that
> Monroe's creation of Bluegrass offered, what would Scruggs have done
> with his music?
>
>
> --
> David Sanderson
> East Waterford Maine
> dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com
> http://www.dwsanderson.com
>
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