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The banjo’s association with bluegrass came with the stylistic innovation of Earl Scruggs in the mid-1940s, when he joined founding father Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys Band. Scruggs was one of many Southern musicians who took up the instrument after it was reintroduced to the South by ragtime musicians and players in traveling minstrel shows. His arpeggiated, three-finger picking style is now commonplace among banjo players, and his breakneck playing in Monroe’s band led to the inclusion of the banjo, along with mandolin and guitar, as the primary instruments of the bluegrass sound. Heard here is banjo player Snuffy Jenkins.
"Sally Ann/Sally Goodin" from Snuffy Jenkins on American Banjo:Three Finger and Scruggs Style (Cat.# Smithsonian/Folkways CD SF 40037) (p)1990 Smithsonian/Folkways Records. All rights reserved.
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