Nothing inhabits a vacuum.
Neither did Earl Scruggs as he developed his revolutionary picking style on the five-string banjo. This two-CD set clearly demonstrates the richness of the North Carolina banjo tradition that fostered banjo players of outstanding abilities. With all this great banjo playing it was only a matter of time before something revolutionary would happen. While this set focuses thematically on North Carolina, there are equally strong traditions throughout the South and beyond. The set starts off with some fine examples of the Black tradition of banjo playing that actually proceeded the White tradition.