George Shuffler Pioneered Cross-Picking Style

George Shuffler is best known for the more than twenty years that he spent playing with bluegrass legends Carter and Ralph Stanley. He’s sometimes even referred to as the third Stanley Brother. George’s skill as a harmony singer enabled the band to perform hair-raising songs as a vocal trio, and his instrumental contributions, both on the bass and guitar, forever changed the sound of bluegrass music. Shuffler pioneered a guitar playing technique known as cross-picking.