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Snuffy Jenkins
12+ albums
bluegrasscountryfolkAllOld time country
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DeWitt "Snuffy" Jenkins (October 27, 1908 – April 29, 1990) was an American banjo player and an early proponent of the three-finger banjo style. Jenkins was born in Harris, North Carolina, as the last of ten children. He began playing the fiddle as a plucked instrument, switched to guitar and later to a home made banjo he and his brother Verl had built. He bought his first real banjo in 1927, and soon fell under the influence of Smith Hammett and Rex Brooks, two early banjo players who did much for the development of Jenkins' style. In 1934, he appeared on the radio show Crazy Water Barn Dance over WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina with his newly formed group, the Jenkins String Band. The string band comprised Snuffy Jenkins on banjo, his brother Verl Jenkins on fiddle and a cousin on guitar. During this time, Jenkins also played in the W.O.W. String Band. In 1936, he joined J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers as banjo player performing at local radio station WSPA in Spartanburg. The next year, in 1937, the Mountaineers were hired to perform over WIS in Columbia. The announcer of radio station WIS was Byron "The Old Hired Hand" Parker and he almost immediately took over the Mountaineers renaming them Byron Parker's Hillbillies. The Hillbillies, consisting of J. E. Mainer on fiddle, Jenkins on banjo, George Morris and Leonard Stokes on guitars, later recorded - without Byron Parker - under the name of J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers. J. E. Mainer soon left, and was replaced by Verl Jenkin
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Pioneer Of The Bluegrass Banjo
Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways
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The Great American Banjo
American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style
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Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonain Folkways Recordings
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Classic Banjo from Smithsonian Folkways
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American Banjo - Tunes and Songs in Scruggs Style
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American Banjo Three Finger & Scruggs Style
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Smithsonian Folkways Classic Series Sampler
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Classic Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways)
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Classic Bluegrass
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Classic Bluegrass: From Smithsonian Folkways