[78-L] Earl Scruggs has died

[simmonssomer]

Well Erwin, if you have to ask you obviously don't know.
A good place to start would be his Columbia recordings with his own band or 
The Clicquot Club Eskimos or the Okeh Syncopaters or The Six Jumping Jacks,
Then...compare his virtuosity with Three Finger Scruggs. In my opinion he 
was the foremost banjoist and bandleader of the twenties and thirties and 
was not
limited to hillbilly music.  (-:

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erwin Kluwer" <ekluwer at gmail.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Earl Scruggs has died


> what about Harry Reser??????
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:17 PM, simmonssomer 
> <simmonssomer at comcast.net>wrote:
>
>> Uhhhh...what about Harry Reser ?
>>
>> Al Simmons
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Sanderson" <dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:08 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Earl Scruggs has died
>>
>>
>> > 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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