Incredible display of Women in Art !!!
Banjo Players on David Letterman including Earl Scruggs !!
Classic Flatt and Scruggs on the Beverly Hillbillies
From "Voices from the Edge" by David Jay Brown
David: Who particularly inspired you?
Jerry Garcia:
Actually no particular musician inspired me, apart from maybe Chuck Berry. But all of the music from the fifties inspired me.
I didn't really start to get serious about music until I was eighteen and I heard my first bluegrass music.
I heard Earl Scruggs play five-string banjo and I thought, that's something I have to be able to do.
I fell in love with the sound and I started earnestly trying to do exactly what I was hearing.
That became the basis for everything else - that was my model.