When I was 13 did not do as well in Basic Algebra as I should have. To help focus the mind parents decided that before the birds were awake I should be up and working at a local dairy farm. – A radio played in the barn to keep the cows contented or something and in the early morning gloom heard Bluegrass for the 1^st time.

Damn, the same elaborate constructions I learned about in music theory when baroque music was discussed. – Was so taken away had to put the shovel down. – Never dared to play Bluegrass while driving, would have ended up going 90 in a school zone.

We just lost the absolute master

Earl Scruggs, Bluegrass Pioneer, Dies at 88

Published: March 29, 2012

Earl Scruggs, the bluegrass banjo player whose hard-driving picking style influenced generations of musicians and helped shape the sound of 20th-century country music with his guitar-strumming partner, Lester Flatt, died on Wednesday in a Nashville hospital. He was 88.

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Bluegrass is cool.....That cool guy played it.....I listened to it...he lives on in his songs