Culture Desk: The Master from Flint Hill: Earl Scruggs : The New Yorker
Earl Scruggs died yesterday morning, March 28, 2012. The bluegrass and wider music worlds mourn and celebrate him. Be sure to listen to the example of his music offered immediately after the last paragraph of this essay. —Steve Martin...
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