Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Often on Tuesday I try to post something to show the wide variety of material available to encourage cutting expose to modern media. The beloved Editor of the Prophecy podcast blog, Pam Dewey, shared this YouTube video on a private forum. Here is her introduction to it: 

I don't care if you "normally" like bluegrass or country music or the like at all. It's impossible not to tap your toe at this amazing ensemble (linked below) playing the old classic, starting with Earl Scruggs and Steve Martin. (Yes, the comedian Steve Martin.) Scruggs died in 2012, and an online eulogy of him had the following to say, leading up to the video.

"The great bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs died Wednesday at the age of 88. Shortly afterward, Steve Martin sent out a tweet calling Scruggs the most important banjo player who ever lived. “Few players have changed the way we hear an instrument the way Earl has,” wrote Martin earlier this year in The New Yorker, “putting him in a category with Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Chet Atkins, and Jimi Hendrix.”

Be sure to read Earl Scruggs obituary in the NY Times if you have even the slightest interest in his interesting life.