365 Day Project-Day 88, take two-Foggy Mountain Breakdown

I didn’t hear this news until after I’d posted my song of the day, but couldn’t let the news pass that we lost another great today.  Earl Scruggs was 88.

I grew up listening to the likes of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.  We regularly watched the Grand Ole Opry and I remember listening to records by Jim Reeves, Jimmy Rodgers, Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard.

With the advent of Rock, I quickly abandoned Country, but have always loved the sound of good banjo and fiddle, and pretty much anything bluegrass; thus my ecstasy in discovering the Goat Rodeo Sessions.

But it all began with Flatt & Scruggs…

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