The banjo on that song was played by Earl Scruggs, whose rapid-fire 1949 “Foggy Mountain Breakdown,” featured on the soundtrack of “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967), popularized the style of hard ...

Some combination of this Yankee style of banjo playing and this J.D. Crowe, Earl Scruggs thing. … All of those rules that I learned about taste, time and tone stood me in good stead when I ...