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Pages in category "Bluegrass musicians from North Carolina" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Billy Constable (March 23, 1959 – August 22, 2015) was an Appalachian musician from Spruce Pine, North Carolina, best known for his three-finger-picking banjo technique and his vigorous acoustic guitar leads. [1]
Pruett was born on 19 August 1951, and grew up in the Osborne Farm area of Haywood County, North Carolina. [1] [2] He graduated from Western Carolina University with a B.S. in Geology. At 15, his musical career started at Ghost Town, a theme park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, where he played banjo and bass for park visitors. [3]
Franklin "Amos" Garren was born in North Carolina on May 10, 1914. [2] He was one of the first bluegrass "bass players." Bill Monroe selected Amos Garren to become his bass player after the band moved to Greenville, South Carolina. Amos Garren was hired in 1942, as Bill Monroe, known now as the "father of bluegrass music", was assembling his band.
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From 1993, Baucom until 1996, Baucom was a member of Carolina with Lou Reid who started the band named Carolina. In 1996, Baucom stopped touring so he could freelance and teach music in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. [12] Baucom was a part-time member of the Mark Newton Band and the Kenny and Amanda Smith Band.
Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. His three-finger style of playing was radically different from the traditional way the five-string banjo had previously ...