If you’re a banjo player (and if you’re reading this blog post, there’s a 99.9999% chance you are), it’s a pretty safe bet you’re familiar with the Earl Scruggs classic, “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”. Let’s face it, any bluegrass banjo player worth their salt not only knows this tune, but can play it. Or at least has tried to play it. It’s required listening for any aspiring bluegrass picker. It’s one of those tunes the general public can readily identify – albeit erroneously, usually confusing it with “Dueling Banjos” (hey, honest mistake, right?). Regardless of whether they think of it as the theme from Deliverance or the “chase” song from Bonnie and Clyde (which, BTW, it is), pretty much everyone, banjo player and layperson alike, knows what the song sounds like.
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