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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-released in a Golden Anniversary Edition...
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.
Wrote “Earl Scruggs and the Five-String Banjo” and invented Scruggs tuners, used to accurately and quickly change a string’s pitch during performance. Spoke publicly against the war at the 1969 US Vietnam Moratorium in Washington, DC.
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...
Songs Earl Scruggs is known for include the instrumental “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”, “Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms” and “The Ballad of Jed Clampett”, which was the theme song for the ...
