Earl Scruggs: Banjo Icon (Roots of American Music: Folk, Americana, Blues, and Country)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017-03-17. 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. F/VG+/ND. Box X14 HARDBACK ""MUSIC BIOGRAPHY,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. * Date: 2017.* Pub: Rowman & Littlefield.* Binding and cover condition: Coloured photo-illustrated paper covered boards black & white titles to spine and face. Slight bump to top front corner, dents to top edges. No shelf wear to head or tail of spine, no other visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text or to edges. No reading wear, tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: One block of 13pp. b/w photos at centre and one photo of the authors to rear.* Pages: 192 pp. text. xxiii pp. Notes, bibliography, index, author notes & blank pages at rear.* Description: As Earl Scruggs picked his banjo with machine-gun precision during his 1945 debut at the Ryman Auditorium, he set in motion a successful career and enduring legacy that would eclipse anything the humble farm boy from North Carolina could have imagined. Scruggs's revolutionary three-finger roll pattern electrified audiences and transformed the banjo into a mainstream solo instrument pursued by innumerable musicians. Interviews with the family and sixty notable musicians and entertainers testify to Scruggs's enduring influence and shed light on the history of bluegrass for musicians, students, and anyone entranced by Scruggs's unmistakable sound.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus with only slight cover faults reducing it to VG+.* 0