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...Bill Monroe's band contained mandolin, guitar, fiddle and string bass, the last of these being the only instrument not found in traditional country music. In 1945 the Blue Grass band took the form in which it remains today, with the addition of a five-string banjo, played by Earl Scruggs in the now universal three-finger style. which bears little resemblance to the earlier "claw hammer" style...
OVER the years, nearly every musician who has apprenticed with Bill Monroe has gone on to make a name for himself in the Blue Grass field. A partial list includes Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, Mac Wiseman, Carter Stanley, Benny Martin, Sonny Osborne, Jimmy Martin. Clyde Moody, Jim Eanes, Gordon Terry. Stringbean and Chubby Wise. Shortly after Bill Monroe's music began to be heard other musicians saw the possibilities the music had and borrowed from it. The Stanley Brothers were the first group to do this, followed by Flatt and Scruggs and Reno and Smiley. Soon there were...
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...ambassador once observed, "is just like an ordinary English evening party." Last week, as Mme. Tussaud's celebrated its 200th anniversary in London, the company was a bit more animated. At a dinner in Tussaud's halls, with the likenesses of Mao and Churchill staring eerily on, Earl Mountbatten examined himself and said: "Every few years they bring you up to date-take out a few hairs, add a wrinkle." Perhaps the only personage whose image had improved was Mary Queen of Scots. Her biographer, Lady Antonia Fraser, posed before a replica of the Queen's executioner...