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