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Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
Earl Eugene Scruggs 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 been played.
Known for
- Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music — Self (archive footage)2019
- Give Me the Banjo — Self2011
- Opry Video Classics: Pioneers — Self (archive footage)2007
- The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show, Vol. 1 — Self2007
- The Three Pickers — Self2003
- CMT Most Wanted Live: "A Very Special Acoustic Christmas" — Self2003
- Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music — Self1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Musical Guest1993
- High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music — Self1992
- American Music Shop — Self1990
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1924
- Active to
- 2012
Discography
- Nashville’s Rock1970
- I Saw the Light With Some Help From My Friends1972
- Dueling Banjos1973
- The Storyteller and the Banjo Man1982
- Top of the World1983
- Dueling Banjos / Live At Kansas State2000
- Earl Scruggs and Friends2001
- Classic Bluegrass Live (1959 - 1966)2002
- Classic Bluegrass Live: 1959-19662002
- The Three Pickers2003
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- 53,082
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- 317,861
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Earl Eugene Scruggs (born January 6, 1924, Shelby, North Carolina-died March 28, 2012, Nashville, Tennessee) was a musician noted for creating a banjo style (now called Scruggs style and also formerly known as the three-finger style) that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in late 1945 and his syncopated, three-finger picking style quickly became a sensation. In 1948 Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt left Monroe's band and formed Flatt
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eugene
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Boiling Springs
- Place of death
- Nashville
- Occupation
- banjoist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- bluegrass music
- Instrument
- banjo
- Record label
- Universal Music Group Nashville
- Official website
- earlscruggs.com
- Image
- Earl Scruggs 2005.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1924-01-06
- date of death
- 2012-03-28
- Commons category
- Earl Scruggs
- place of burial
- Tennessee
- start of work period
- 1945-00-00
- member of
- Flatt and Scruggs
- birth name
- Earl Eugene Scruggs
- name in native language
- Earl Scruggs
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- partner in business or sport
- Lester Flatt
- online catalog URL
- gnudb.org/artists/595221-earl-scruggs
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