Earl's Guitar

Hello everyone!

Alright, so many of you may know about Earl's banjo book (Which I highly recomend). Now Earl is more famous for playing banjo, but his guitar rocked as well! So why hasen't anyone put a book out about that? If not Earl, Jim Mills is a great guitarist, he could put out a book or DVD.

I even play a little fingerstyle, I do like Earl's banjo better, but Earl's guitar is a part of his music. Earl is very good guitarist, displaying aspects of Mother Maybelle Carter's style ("Jimmie Brown, The Newsboy" and "You Are My Flower" to name a couple) and a three finger version of Merle Travis style, using a thumb rhythm ("Are You Washed In The Blood" for example). But Earl's style is unique, using forward and alternating rolls in contrast to the regular Travis style. Also, Earl tends to use the E-postition for several songs.

What do you guys think about an Earl Scruggs guitar book?

I would love to see a Scruggs Style Guitar book out! He copied a lot of Momma Maybelle Carter so if she had put out a book, that would probably have very similar info in there.

There is some stuff out that covers Carter styles, one of them might be on a "Homespun Tape"

Homespun also did Sonny Osborne's lessons!

I seen the audio sample of that, Sonnys pretty good, so is his "replacment," Dana Cupp, who used to play with Bill Monroe and now plays with Bobby Osborne.

Rocky Top X-Press! I saw clips of the lessons on Gibson's site.

Hey guys! This is my first time logged in to the site, and I know that this post is aging. But thought I'd jump in anyway. I would very much like to adapt my picking to Earl's guittar style. A book, or lessons in any other media, would be something I would spend money on. Maybe someone can contact Earl about it. Or possibly Hal Leonard, as he published both printings of Earl's banjo book.
~ Grizzly

Now just let me call Earl up right here

1-800-I WISH I KNEW HIS NUMBER

hahaha if only the common man could contact Earl. I will contact some people that I know of to see if they can contact him for me

Alright guys, I emailed someone I know who knows Earl personally and has access to him. I asked him about this matter and will let you guys know when I get a response.

You can get an address at www.earlscruggs.com I ordered a couple of autographed banjo heads from him recently. So the web store does have some type of contact with him. They dont do online sales, or credit/debit cards. You have to mail a check or money order to their address. Just a thought, I might mail them a letter when I get off the road and back home. Wouldn't hurt to have the requests come from all directions.
~ Grizzly

As far as the 'common man' having accesss to Earl, you just might be surprised! I've had email contact with several 'big name' musicians just by sending them a note, and my email address. And I'm about as common a guy as you're gonna find! I'm gonna write to Earl personally and see what happens. I'll let you know if I hear back from him. ~ Grizzly

I know Sonny Osborne, and Kenny Ingram are both accessible by email. And I also read that Earl has no personal email address.

Earl doesn't appear to me to be the type of person who would mess with computers at all. Had they come about in his younger years he might have though. Most people in his age bracket don't do email, or even computers. I'll bet his sons, and other people affiliated closely to him do though. His web site is pretty bare bones as web sites go. About the most high tech you'll find there is the ability to fill out your order form before printing it out. Then you've got to use 'snail mail' to get it there. Personally I've got to respect anyone who avoids computers, email, and the internet. My life was so much simpler BC (Before Computers) LOL Can't hardly do business without 'em though! ~ Grizzly

Hey grizzly, mind telling me how many "big name" musician's email adresses you know? I want to hit them up for money, LOL.


Seriously though, keep us posted about contacting Earl. If you fail I'll kick you off this board, LOL! Kidding again.

Josh

How are the moderator controls going? All working for you?

Lemme know. You should be able to move a topic, delete a post, edit a post, and lock the topic.

Yeah Carter they are workin good man! Thanks a bunch!