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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.
Foggy Mountain Jamboree is an album by Flatt & Scruggs, released by Columbia Records in 1957. It was re-issued on CD by Columbia Records and Legacy Records in 2005. It was a 2012 inductee to the Grammy Hall of Fame .
Earl Scruggs in 2005 "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" is a bluegrass instrumental, in the common "breakdown" format, written by Earl Scruggs and first recorded on December 11, 1949, by the bluegrass artists Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. [1] It is a standard in the bluegrass repertoire. The 1949 recording features Scruggs playing a five ...
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Following the breakup, Lester Flatt founded the Nashville Grass and Scruggs led the Earl Scruggs Revue. Flatt died of heart failure in Nashville, Tennessee, May 11, 1979 at the age of 64. [3] Scruggs died from natural causes on March 28, 2012 in a Nashville hospital. [4] [5] Flatt and Scruggs were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985.
Tony Trischka has influenced every banjo player from Béla Fleck to Steve Martin. He'll honor his hero, Earl Scruggs, at Unity Hall on March 22.
Their inspiration for going into the banjo business was Earl Scruggs' creation of homemade cam tuners, which he developed after recording "Earl's Breakdown" in 1951. Scruggs had sought to refine the way he played this song by finding a way to re-tune more accurately during the piece.
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