XPost: alt.banjo, alt.music.country.classic, rec.music.country.western   
   From: gcmccoury@yahoo.com   
      
   Sunday November 27 2005   
      
   MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs fell while   
   performing at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on Saturday night,   
   suffering minor injuries.   
   The 81-year-old Scruggs walked off the stage, striking his head and ending   
   up with a cut above his eye that needed 12 stitches, said Norman Adams,   
   promoter of the South Carolina State Bluegrass Festival.   
      
   The glare of the bright stage lights apparently got in Scruggs eyes and he   
   could not see others trying to warn him he was about to fall like Susanna   
   Buck of Conway, who jumped from her front-row seat trying to help Scruggs.   
      
   "Everybody in the crowd was yelling for him to stop," she said. "There was   
   just no way anybody could get there in time."   
      
   Scruggs headed back to Nashville on a bus not long after his trip to the   
   emergency room. He will be tested by specialists to make sure the fall   
   didn't damage his artificial hips, Adams said.   
      
   Scruggs, who grew up near Shelby, N.C., has been playing the banjo since he   
   was 4, according to his Web site.   
      
   In 1969, Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt won a Grammy Award for Scruggs'   
   instrumental "Foggy Mountain Breakdown."   
      
   Scruggs won a second Grammy award for a 2001 recording of that same tune.   
      
   Yet another $.02 worth from a proud owner of a Martin D-28DM, vintage D-18,   
   vintage Gibson J-45,  Dobro model 60 roundneck, vintage 3/4 Epiphone bass   
   fiddle and a Gibson RB-3 wreath...   
      
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