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Sunday, April 1, 2012

Bluegrass Music News--4.1.12

 
Public paying last respects to Earl Scruggs
San Francisco Chronicle
(AP) -- Mourners gathered Sunday in the country music capital to pay last respects to bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs. A public funeral was set at the Ryman Auditorium near a cluster of downtown honky-tonks where Scruggs' music is still played.
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Mourners gather in Nashville for funeral of banjo-plucking bluegrass legend ...
Washington Post
Mourners have gathered in Nashville to pay last respects to bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs. A public funeral was set for Sunday afternoon at the Ryman Auditorium, near a cluster of downtown honky-tonks where his music is still played.
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The Grascals' Kristin Scott Benson shares memories of Earl Scruggs
Examiner.com
With the music world at large mourning the still-new loss of the legendary Earl Scruggs, it isn't surprising that many most impacted by the silencing of his strings are the bluegrass musicians who were weaned on his genre-shaping sound—and in ...
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In his hands the banjo was a new instrument
The Australian
In a career lasting more than 60 years he played a pivotal role in popularising the authentic form of country music known as bluegrass and pioneered a fast, fluid method of picking that was influential on several generations of banjo players and became ...
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All about the family at bluegrass festival
Burlington Hawk Eye
More than a half-dozen bluegrass bands filled the halls of the Comfort Suites hotel with the sweet sounds of fiddles and mandolins during the ninth annual Family Spring Bluegrass Music Festival on Friday and Saturday, soothing the ears of fans and ...
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Give thanks for the life of Earl Scruggs
Hickory Daily Record
He rose to fame with Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys. Earl fit right in with Monroe's demand for music that made people jump. Ol' Bill wanted something different for his band. He took the best parts of traditional mountain music and produced what we ...
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What Earl Scruggs Means to Me
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
But back home, at my grandparents' place in Black Mountain, Kentucky, the musical medicine was bluegrass, country and gospel radio, and The Grand Ole Opry on TV. My heroes were Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, and Lester Flatts and of course, ...
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Earl Scruggs Dead at 88 (A Top Story)
antiMUSIC.com
Scruggs's influence on the bluegrass genre is infinite. A revolutionary banjo player who helped craft the sound and style of modern country music, his playing is instantly recognizable. He propagated a three-finger picking style that took the banjo ...
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DJ "Dr. Don," The Big 98 and Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park to revive ...
Branford News
Live Oak — SPIRIT OF THE SUWANNEE MUSIC PARK, LIVE OAK, FLA - The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park (SOSMP) has joined with The Big 98.1 WQHL Country to broadcast Dr. Don's Fun Time Show featuring bluegrass, country and just plain good music beginning ...
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Scruggs funeral at Ryman Auditorium
Charlotte Observer
The US banjo legend from the 1950's who brought bluegrass to the masses and strummed to a hit TV show and movie in the 1960s, has died at 88, according to his son. Starting in the 1960's, Scruggs played alongside numerous music legends including Bob ...
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Rhonda Vincent on Earl Scruggs : Bluegrass Today
By Guest Contributor
As a child, listening to bluegrass music on vinyl albums, gazing at the hatted men on each cover, and studying the names of the musicians, my ears definitely deciphered distinct changes in the music as Flatt & Scruggs formed their own group.
Bluegrass Today

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