I had a mental brainfart over on Theo Boehm's blog here. We were talking about banjos and I mentioned a guy I'd seen playing recently. The guy ID'd a song he played as "a chase scene from Bonnie and Clyde. Heh
A little Internet research and I realized that it was Flatts and Scruggs playing Foggy Mountain Breakdown. Here's a video of Scruggs and some friends playing it:
Earl Scruggs. What a blessing he is to American music. He's getting up there in years now too.
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I rented a DVD from Netflix called Earl Scruggs: The Bluegrass Legend: Family & Friends.
ReplyDeleteI highly recommend it. Scruggs was a master whose banjo playing extended far beyond bluegrass, into rock, folk, country and jazz.