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Earl Scruggs

real name Earl Eugene Scruggs

Boiling Springs, United States · 1924-01-06 – 2012-03-28

Earl Scruggs is credited on 1,514 releases across 452 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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Earl Scruggs (born January 6, 1924, Shelby, North Carolina, USA - died March 28, 2012, Nashville, Tennessee, USA) was an American banjo player and musician, noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger style (now called Scruggs style) on the 5-string banjo that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. Along with Lester Flatt he founded The Foggy Mountain Boys. In 1986, received his Honorary Doctorate of Humanites from Gardner-Webb College, Boiling Springs, NC. and in 2005 Honorary Doctor Of Music, Berklee College Of Music, Boston MA. He first reached a mainstream audience in the early 1960's through his performance on "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", the theme for the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies.
Married.
His sons, Randy Scruggs and Gary Scruggs, were musicians that played with him on some projects.
His granddaughter,, and grandson,, are also musicians.

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