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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 ...
Flatt and Scruggs were an American bluegrass duo. Singer and guitarist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs, both of whom had been members of Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys, from 1945 to 1948, formed the duo in 1948. Flatt and Scruggs are viewed by music historians as one of the premier bluegrass groups in the history of the genre ...
Lester Flatt (right) with Earl Scruggs (left) as part of Flatt and Scruggs in 1949. Flatt was born in Duncan's Chapel, Overton County, Tennessee, United States, [2] to Nannie Mae Haney and Isaac Columbus Flatt. In 1943, he played mandolin and sang tenor in The Kentucky Pardners, the band of Bill Monroe's older brother Charlie. [3]
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.
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Scruggs performed as part of a duo with his brother, Gary, as well as with his father and brothers in the Earl Scruggs Revue for more than a decade. He went on to release a solo album, Crown of ...
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In 2001, he played banjo on Earl Scruggs's remake of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". The recording was the winner of the Best Country Instrumental Performance category at the Grammy Awards of 2002. In 2008, Martin appeared with the band, In the Minds of the Living, during a show in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. [70]