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Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. His three-finger style of playing was radically different from the traditional way the five-string banjo had previously been played.
Earl Scruggs and his "Foggy Mountain Breakdown." This clip is the famous Banjo Finale from the movie "Bluegrass Country Soul," released in 1972 and re-releas...
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Earl Scruggs was an American bluegrass banjoist, the developer of a unique instrumental style that helped to popularize the five-string banjo. Scruggs, who came from a musical family, began to play his father’s banjo at age 4, and by the age of 15 he was playing on local radio broadcasts.
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Earl Scruggs will forever be known as one of the pioneers of bluegrass music, but his virtuoso banjo playing and innovations went beyond country music, branc...
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Earl Eugene Scruggs, the most influential and imitated banjo player in the world, was born on a forty-acre cotton farm in the little Flint Hill community of Cleveland County on January 6, 1924. The youngest child of George Elam Scruggs and Lula Ruppe Scruggs, Earl grew up in a musical family. His father, who passed away when Earl was only four ...
Wife Louise Scruggs (1929-2006) was the first prominent female business figure in country music. Piloted his own plane to distant concert appearances, beginning in 1957. Wrote “Earl Scruggs and the Five-String Banjo” and invented Scruggs tuners, used to accurately and quickly change a string’s pitch during performance.
Apr 17, 2010 · Written by Earl ScruggsBanjo: Earl Scruggs2nd banjo solo: Steve Martin1st electric guitar solo: Vince Gill2nd electric guitar solo: Albert LeeAcoustic guitar...
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