In honor of Earl Scruggs’ birthday, we look at a rare NBC News segment and performance of “Polka on a Banjo”
Meanwhile, country music was setting its own records, enjoying a 10-year peak in popularity and “not easily ignored or forgotten,” as McGee noted in his introduction. Picking up a five-string banjo, he referred to the instrument as “the freshest sound of all.
Meanwhile, Scruggs explains and demonstrates the three-finger picking technique and the use of two extra pegs he has mounted on the peghead to allow him to vary the pitch of the strings while playing. He then leads the band in a rousing instrumental performance before the segment returns to McGee, who notes that the music’s popularity has led to “a 300-percent increase in banjo sales in the last few years.
Flatt and Scruggs ended the decade by going their separate ways, both musically and personally, in February 1969. Scruggs was joined by his sons, Randy and Gary, in the more progressive Earl Scruggs Revue, while Flatt continued on a more traditional path until his death in May 1979. They went an entire decade without speaking, until Scruggs visited Flatt in a Nashville hospital earlier that year.
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