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RIP Earl. You were one of the absolute best.
Bella gave a shout out to Earl and worked some of The Ballad of Jed Clampett into his encore.
Never forget the first time I heard ‘Foggy Mountain Breakdown.” I know he’s giving a great performance for the Lord right now.
Rest in Peace sir. You were a great, great, picker.
What an amazing life he had. Brings back memories when I was a little kid of sitting there with Mom and listening to that old-fashioned Country & Bluegrass music on the radio. So, so long ago.
RIP, Earl. Thanks for the memories.
A real picker! I’ll bet he’s already pickin’ an angel’s harp rigged with a strap over his shoulder, up yonder.
There was a chorus of “Oh, no!” in the Tax-chick household ... but hey, he was 88. I hope to hear him *live* on the other side.
An old gentleman that married my Dad’s sister late in life was in a band for years beginning in the late 1930’s. The subject of Earl Scruggs came up when I had told Uncle James that I had just bought the “Earl Scruggs and Friends” CD.
Uncle James told me about meeting Earl Scruggs and his family many, many years ago. The story went that Uncle James’ band was trying to find a banjo player and heard about Earl. They visited his home while Earl still lived with his mother.
While Uncle James was there, he told me he went squirrel hunting and killed several squirrels. He was dressing the squirrels to eat when Earl’s mother stopped him and said, “You don’t know anything about cleaning squirrels!”. She proceeded to dress them in just a few minutes.
As history shows, Earl did not join up with Uncle James’ band and Uncle James never became famous, but I thought it was an awesome story.
There was a couple in my little small town in Arkansas whose names were Webster and Pearl Earls. After Lester Flatt sang “Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, don’t you marry Earl” on the Beverly Hillbillies, my daddy came home drunk singing “Pearl, Pearl Pearl, don’t marry Webster Earls”. I still laugh when I think about it today.
Scruggs played at Nixon's inauguration parade and at the anti-War moratorium in the same year. Quite a feat in a very divided country.
FWIW, somebody should invent a "Who died today" app. I saw the Beverly Hillbillies clip on CNN out of the corner of my eye, and couldn't figure out if it was Jethro or Ellie May who had passed on today (Buddy Ebsen †2003, Irene Ryan †1973).