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Snuffy Jenkins

Snuffy Jenkins has been played on NTS in shows including Smithsonian Folkways , featured first on 23 April 2024. Songs played include Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

DeWitt "Snuffy" Jenkins (October 27, 1908 – April 29, 1990) was an American banjo player and an early proponent of the three-finger banjo style.

Jenkins was born in Harris, North Carolina, as the last of ten children. He began playing the fiddle as a plucked instrument, switched to guitar and later to a home made banjo he and his brother Verl had built. He bought his first real banjo in 1927, and soon fell under the influence of Smith Hammett…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Snuffy Jenkins, The Hired Hands
Folk-Lyric1962
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Snuffy Jenkins, The Hired HandsFolk-Lyric1962
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