Fact #124894
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Acclaimed and influential old time banjo player Snuffy Jenkins dies in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, as a result of colon cancer.Full article:
Dan Reno : There was other fellas that played with three fingers before Snuffy, but he was the first one who ever put it together. It’s like seeing a river winding and you don’t know where it’s going and then finally you see it straightened out going into the ocean; that’s the best way I can explain it. When I heard Snuffy, I could see that he had unwound something and straightened it out to the point where it did have a flowing melody to it and not a bunch of jerks and stops and this, that, and the other thing. He had perfected, as far as I’m concerned, a three-finger roll.
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