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Bluegrass Hall of Famer played alongside Flatt & Scruggs, remembered as ‘unsung hero’

 

December 28, 2017 


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North Carolina-born mandolin player Curly Seckler died Dec. 27, 2017, at the age of 98. He went on to play in bands alongside some of the most iconic figures in bluegrass, most notably Flatt & Scruggs, the legendary group formed by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.North Carolina-born mandolin player Curly Seckler died Dec. 27, 2017, at the age of 98. He went on to play in bands alongside some of the most iconic figures in bluegrass, most notably Flatt & Scruggs, the legendary group formed by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

Bluegrass pioneer Curly Seckler’s death, which happened Dec. 27 in Nashville at age 98, was not unexpected.

But it was still dreaded by many in the bluegrass world – especially by his biographer, Penny Parsons of Durham.

“I’m writing an obituary, but I basically already wrote it in advance,” Parsons said Thursday. “I anticipated it would just be too hard when things happened. It was a privilege to know him and an honor to be his friend.”

Seckler, a native of China Grove, was born John Ray Sechler on Christmas Day 1919. He started out playing banjo with his brothers in the 1930s. 

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