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Reno & Smiley

Don Reno, Crimson Smiley, as well as the Tennessee Cut-Ups were a bluegrass music group of such top quality which they gave serious competition to Flatt & Scruggs within the ’50s. Reno, an unparalleled master from the banjo, performed for Expenses Monroe in 1948, changing Earl Scruggs. Having a clean …

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Don Reno

Practically unrivalled among his contemporaries for his mastery from the five-string banjo, Don Reno teamed with Red Smiley to generate a number of the best bluegrass recordings from the postwar era — an excellent tenor vocalist and songwriter, Reno also proved imperative to the emergence of your guitar as you …

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