April 10,2012

I know I have to keep up with this blog thing a bit better.  I will try to blog once every week.

We lost a neat guy last week, Earl Scruggs.  Someone once said that he dressed like a Nashville dentist, but Earl Scruggs was a classy man.  He came from the days when we all dressed up to go on an airplane.  These days, people do not dress up much for anything at all. 

I had the pleasure of meeting and hearing Earl play twice.  One of these photographs is from an interview we did before a show at UW Milwaukee in 1972.  The other photograph shows him playing with one of his sons and the incredible Vasser Clements.  Earl did things with a banjo that made you listen hard and look twice. 

We will miss you Earl and keep playing that banjo in heaven.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann