The News & Observer is running a fine story on Bluegrass Pioneer George Shuffler. Mr. Shuffler was that “tall feller” who sang and played guitar with the Stanley Brothers for so many years. In addition to popularizing guitar crosspicking, he also admits to being a better than average horse trader:
A fine glimpse back to a time where one could swap a possum dog for their first horse!
“I was pretty fair at that because I’d grown up around it,” Shuffler says. “I could look a horse in the mouth, tell its age, how hard it’d been worked. Livestock’s been a love my whole life. We’d be on the road and Carter would say, ‘I just caught George looking at cattle trucks. Guess he’ll be going home again soon.’ I head that more than once and I’d always say, ‘Nah, I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ But sure enough, a week or two later, it would happen.”









