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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.
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...
Earl Scruggs (born January 6, 1924, Flint Hill, North Carolina, U.S.—died March 28, 2012, Nashville, Tennessee) was an American bluegrass banjoist, the developer of a unique instrumental style that helped to popularize the five-string banjo.
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.
Earl Scruggs, once compared to violinist Niccolo Paganini, not only pioneered the three-finger banjo but played it to standards of taste and technique unmatched by thousands of disciples over seven decades.
Mar 29, 2012 · Earl Scruggs, the bluegrass banjo player whose hard-driving picking style influenced generations of musicians and helped shape the sound of 20th-century country music with his guitar-strumming...
Mar 29, 2012 · Banjo player Earl Scruggs, who helped define the sound of bluegrass, died Wednesday morning. Scruggs, who began playing the banjo when he was four years old, just after his father died, and...
Earl Scruggs was born January 6, 1924, near Shelby, North Carolina, in an area known as the Flint Hill community. His father, George Elam Scruggs, was a banjo player and fiddler, but Earl's memories of him are vague.
Jan 13, 2012 · Earl Scruggs died yesterday morning, March 28, 2012. The bluegrass and wider music worlds mourn and celebrate him. Be sure to listen to the example of his music offered immediately after the...
Mar 29, 2012 · And finally, this hour, we remember Earl Scruggs, the master of the five-string banjo, who has died at age 88. As a young man, he created his own style of fingerpicking on the banjo...
