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Article: Scruggs, Earl
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Earl Scruggs
Banjo player, songwriter
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The instrumental sound most closely associated with bluegrass music
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a banjo picked at furious pace with three fingers
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was created by Earl Scruggs, a country picker from rural North Carolina. As a member of Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, and later as half of Flatt and Scruggs, Scruggs literally sent blue-grass in the direction it has followed to this day. His banjo virtuosity was an amazing novelty in 1945; today it is a requirement for every bluegrass band. In
Country Music U.S.A.
, Bill C Malone writes that Scruggs
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added a new and dynamic ingredient to the Blue Grass ...
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