Our Pick
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Earl Scruggs joins Bill Monroe and bluegrass begins
1945
Ryman Auditorium, Nashville
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Monroe hired a 21-year-old banjo player from North Carolina who picked with three fingers instead of strumming, and the Blue Grass Boys lineup that walked onto the Ryman stage that December, Monroe, Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Chubby Wise and Cedric Rainwater, is the one people mean when they say a genre was invented on a particular night.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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