Reuters

Banjo innovator, music pioneer Earl Scruggs dies at 88

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Banjo innovator and bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, died on Wednesday at a Nashville hospital at age 88. He had been in ...
Rolling Stone

Earl Scruggs Would’ve Turned 100 This Year. Bluegrass Is Still Playing His Songs

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 ...
Rolling Stone

Banjo Reigns Supreme at 2025 Earl Scruggs Music Festival

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...
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Mr. Scruggs and His Three Magical Fingers

This year, people in North Carolina are celebrating the hundredth birthday of one of their most beloved sons, the revolutionary and legendary bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs. He defined how most ...