Vintage footage of Earl Scruggs is displayed on an old televisIon at the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby in 2014. CHARLOTTE OBSERVER FILE PHOTO This excerpt from “Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain ...
When bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs died in 2012 at age 88, it was no exaggeration to mark it as the passing of one of the genre's founding fathers. The characteristic banjo style he developed still ...
Earl Scruggs would have turned 95 on Jan. 6, 2019. On Jan. 11, he is the star of a Google Doodle. This story about Scruggs memorabilia originally was published Sept. 21, 2017. Jim Mills spent decades ...
He’s been dead six years years now, but North Carolina-born banjo master Earl Scruggs found a new audience of millions on Friday. Google featured Scruggs as a Google Doodle, the images that regularly ...
Epiphone is celebrating American roots music in a big way for 2024 with a new Bluegrass Collection that features an Inspired By Gibson Earl Scruggs Golden Deluxe banjo, Mastertone Bowtie Open Back ...
“Few players have changed the way we hear an instrument the way Earl has, putting him in a category with Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Chet Atkins and Jimi Hendrix.” Those words, penned by actor, ...
Backstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival in North Carolina, Marty Stuart has just finished a whirlwind set on the Flint Hill Stage. A blitzkrieg of country, bluegrass, and rock, Stuart & His ...
Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs was born 100 years ago this week, and the tributes to the banjo picker have been many. On Friday, Tony Trischka, himself a banjo disciple of Scruggs, released a ...
Randy Scruggs, a Grammy-winning musician, songwriter and producer, and the son of banjo innovator Earl Scruggs, died Tuesday night after a short illness. He was 64. Randy Lynn Scruggs was the second ...