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The Bluegrass: Earl Scruggs
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Don Clark, the owner and operator of the Bluegrass Bus Museum has collected bluegrass and country music memorabilia for the past thirty years. The bus museum includes hundreds of autographed photos of musical legends ranging from Flatt & Scruggs to Nickel Creek. The museum features vintage clothing worn by musical stars such as Ralph Stanley, Jimmy Martin and Johnny Cash. The museum is covered from floor to ceiling in musical items that date back to the 1930’s. Many of the guests who tour the bus museum are overwhelmed by the amount of memorabilia that has been collected over the years. Children love the hands on approach to the bus museum and often come back two or three times a day.
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The high lonesome sound of Bluegrass Music was developed by Grand Old Opry star Bill Monroe in the 1940's. Drawing on years of experience with southern style String Band Music, gospel harmonies and southern Blues he created a unique mix that was further defined by the addition of Earl Scruggs' irresistible three finger banjo styling. It features the use of acoustic (non electric) instruments. These instruments are guitar, mandolin, 5 string banjo, double bass, fiddle and dobro. The vocals feature 2, 3 and 4 part tight harmonies with a sound that is unique.
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In the years of 1939-1941, the Bluegrass Boys performed on the Grand Ole Opry, signed a contract under RCA Victor Records, and then formed their own touring company. Scruggs' three-finger banjo style would become the standard for future bluegrass groups. It was when Flatt and Scruggs were in the band that Monroe first recorded the song that would soon become his signature, "Blue Moon of Kentucky."
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The increased availability of traditional music recordings, nationwide indoor and outdoor bluegrass festivals and movie, television and commercial soundtracks featuring bluegrass music have aided in bringing this music out of modern day obscurity. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys achieved national prominence with tour sponsorship by Martha White Flour and for playing the soundtrack for the previously mentioned film, Bonnie and Clyde, as well as on a television show called The Beverly Hillbillies. The Deliverance movie soundtrack ... featured bluegrass music-in particular, "Dueling Banjos," performed by Eric Weissberg on banjo and Steve Mandel on guitar. In 2001, the triple platinum selling soundtrack for the Coen Brothers movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou? attracted wider audiences for bluegrass and traditional country music.
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Bluegrass 45 cut its first album, Run Mountain, in 1968. That was the same year Flatt & Scruggs toured Japan. It was the first real-life American bluegrass band Otsuka had ever heard. "It was amazing", he recalled. The young Japanese bluegrassers were invited to a dinner party with Earl and Uncle Josh Graves."We just sat there and watched them eat", Akira said. Neither he nor any of his compatriots spoke English.
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Vince Gill and Ricky Skaggs will headline “Bluegrass at the Ryman,” July 5th and July 19th, respectively. Others in the lineup include Earl Scruggs on June 21st; Rhonda Vincent on June 28th, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver on July 12th and Mountain Heart and The Grascals on July 26th.
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