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Born
Oct. 7th, 1961 in Columbia, TN, Earl first became interested in
bluegrass music during his early teens. He started by learning to play
the banjo and by the age of 16 had become an accomplished player.
After attending several local festivals and music competitions he began
to notice that there would be an overwhelming number of banjo players
there but maybe one or two reso players at the most. Earl then became
interested in learning to play this new instrument.
With a borrowed Dobro ©, he went back to his Flatt & Scruggs albums
which he had previously used to learn the Earl Scruggs style of banjo
playing. This time however, he was listening to the reso stylings of
Josh Graves.
Later on, Earl was influenced by the reso playing of Mike Auldridge with
the Seldom Scene and also by a young up-and-coming reso player named
Jerry Douglas. |
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