sonny-osborne · wolfe1982-bluegrass-picking

They continued to innovate: Sonny broke out of his Scruggs-style banjo playing. He later recalled: "I realized in 1957 that I couldn't copy Scruggs anymore because, when he was through and couldn't play anymore, that I'd still have some time left." He began to improvise solos, and to base them on horn or piano solos, and he even added a sixth string to his banjo.