Earl Scruggs
Bluegrass, Musical Artist
1924 – 2012
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Who was Earl Scruggs?
Earl Eugene Scruggs was an American musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a three-finger banjo-picking style that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music.
Although other musicians had played in three-finger style before him, Scruggs shot to prominence when he was hired by Bill Monroe to fill the banjo slot in his group, The Blue Grass Boys. He later reached a mainstream audience through his performance of "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", the theme for the network television hit The Beverly Hillbillies, in the early 1960s.
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- Born
- Jan 6, 1924
Scottville - Also known as
- Earl Eugene Scruggs
- Scruggs, Earl
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Louise Scruggs
(1948/04/18 - 2006/02/02)
- Louise Scruggs
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- North Carolina
- Died
- Mar 28, 2012
Nashville
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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