Uncle John Scruggs

Uncle John Scruggs - banjo player. Filmed on November 8th, 1928.

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Scruggs was born a slave, in Buckingham County, Virginia, in 1855. Here is the only video of him performing the folk ballad “Little Log Cabin Round the Lane” in a minstrel style. Footage taken by the Fox Movietone News, in Powhatan, Virginia on November 8, 1928. Uncle John Scruggs played 5-string banjo in the traditional clawhammer style. There are no other known recordings of his music. He is presumed to have died in Macon, Virginia.

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