The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #162165   Message #3857871
Posted By: Vic Smith
30-May-17 - 10:35 AM
Thread Name: Great Put-Downs
Subject: RE: Great Put-Downs
The great American song collector, Frank Warner took the wonderful Frank Proffitt to the Newport Folk festival in its early days. There he heard the amazingly technical playing of Earl Scruggs for the first time.
Frank listened carefully then, "I sure wish I could play the banjo as fast as that," said Frank, " ... and then not do so!"