Earl Scruggs amazed audiences by taking a three-fingered banjo style that blended speed with accuracy and adding his own rhythmic bounce of syncopation. A century after Scruggs’ birth, a new series of ...

What would have been Earl Scruggs’ 100th birthday is this Saturday (January 6). A star-studded lineup of country and bluegrass musicians will gather to celebrate a man who helped change the way ...

The iconic North Carolina bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs would have turned 100 on Jan. 6. On Saturday, the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby will host a special concert to honor his memory with the ...

Bluegrass songs. Biographical notes on container. Performer(s): Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs; with the Foggy Mountain Boys. Table of contents Flint Hill Special / Scruggs --Some old day / Certain, ...

Popular music in North America entered a revolutionary stage in the 1940s, and a handful of recordings from the decade document the shift into music that was more virtuosic than what had come before.