SONGS FROM ARTISTS WHO HELPED CREATE AND INTRODUCE A NEW WAY/STYLE OF PLAYING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

Maile Carballo / KUTX

***Supported by Tillery Street Plant Company***

January 6, 1924 – Bluegrass music genius Earl Scruggs was born in Cleveland County, NC. He not only gave us the sublime “Ballad of Jed Clampett” and “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”, he perfected and popularized a 3-finger banjo-picking style later dubbed “Scruggs style”.

Let’s celebrate and hear SONGS FROM ARTISTS WHO HELPED CREATE AND INTRODUCE A NEW WAY/STYLE OF PLAYING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

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