Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Out to Follow Scruggs’s Path
2. “I grew up around a banjo”
3. The Piedmont’s Rich Musical Soil
4. Early Professional Days
5. Joining Bill Monroe
6. Working as a Blue Grass Boy
7. Flatt and Scruggs Build a Career
8. Recording “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”
9. “Like a Jackhammer” — How the Tune Works
10. The Number-One Banjo Player
11. The Beverly Hillbillies Welcomes the Banjo
12. Riding with Bonnie and Clyde
13. Scruggs without Flatt: A Period of Transition
14. Scruggs’s Banjo Gains a Cult Following
15. Reaping the Harvest
Notes
Index