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Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs Newsreel

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Uploaded by on Apr 30, 2010

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Newsreel featuring the Foggy Mountain boys..Earl does a small segment on banjo from 1960 live

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  • I am from Simpsonville, South Carolina which is about ten minutes away from Greenville. I wish I would have been alive back then so I could see Earl and Lester play. I hope I can play my banjo as good as Earl one day.

  • A gem of a time capsule.

  • This is GRRRRREEEEAAATE!!! I love it!! thanks for posting it

  • And some of the so called modern bluegrass bands do not have a 5 string banjo, and so they should not be called bluegrass! Call them something else.

  • Earl is the ultimate and has been the point of reference for 5 string banjo ever since he first recorded. He is the reason why I and so many others were drawn into Bluegrass for a lifetime. However, it is worth noting that while Bill Monroe had the highest regard for Earl's work, his opinion was that the instrumental part of Bluegrass centered around the fiddle, and probably had Kenny Baker's playing in mind. Be sure to check out the F+S Martha White TV show videos.

  • I sure wish I could tune into the NBC-TV evening news and catch a spot like this, instead of all the other stuff we see these days. Bless you Les & Earl, and Frank McGee for telling it like it is.

  • I'm only about an hour and a half from Greenville, SC..I wonder if I leave now..if they'll still be playing? lol

  • @hlfoltz Frank McGee (the anchor here) hosted a show called the Frank McGee Report during the 60s, my guess is it's from that.

  • @hlfoltz It aired on NBC, but no clue about the program.

  • On what program was this originally aired? I am doing a research paper on bluegrass music and would like to be able to use it as a source. 

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