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Jenkins dressed up in baggy pants while "Greasy" wore blackface. It was around this time Byron Parker gave Jenkins his nickname "Snuffy" because he used to wipe his nose with his sleeve during one of the skits. Byron Parker died in 1948, and Jenkins and Sherrill, who had taken over the band, changed its name to The Hired Hands in Parker's memory.
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Scruggs does name Jenkins as a major influence. While Jenkins played a three finger banjo style similar to Scruggs in the North Carolina mountains he was an important influence on Earl Scruggs who is often referred to as the father of bluegrass banjo playing. Jenkins played
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on fiddle; Mainer, Stokes and Morris had left earlier. Parker changed the group's name to The WIS Hillbillies and in 1947, Julian "Greasy" Medlin, a guitar player and a veteran of the medicine show circuit, along with the bass player Ira
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as a plucked instrument, switched to guitar and later to a home-made banjo he and his brother Virl 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
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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 Jenkins on fiddle and Clyde Robbins on guitar. Also, the String band that
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Jenkins formed had many of the characteristics of later froupls like that of Bill Monroe. Jenkins shows his three-finger banjo style in its most natural form in these three pieces, "Spanish
Fandango," "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," and "Dixie/There's No Place Like Home."
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Jenkins (accompanied by Ira Dimmery on guitar) for a Folkways sampler album of three-finger banjo styles. The Hired Hands first recorded as a group for Folk-Lyric in 1962. During the 1960s, they performed on several folk and bluegrass festivals.
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features bluegrass and old-time music, and includes historical talks and discussions of Snuffy's life and music as well as related discussions about the contributions of other innovative banjo players from the region: Rex Brooks, Smith
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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.
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