Scruggs, Earl

Scruggs, Earl

▪ American musician
in full  Earl Eugene Scruggs 
born Jan. 6, 1924, Flint Hill, N.C., U.S.

      American bluegrass banjoist, the developer of a unique instrumental style that helped to popularize the five-string banjo.

      Scruggs, who came from a musical family, began to play his father's banjo at age 5, and by the age of 15 he was playing on local radio broadcasts. During his early teens Scruggs experimented with and eventually perfected a picking technique involving the thumb and first two fingers of the right hand—a technique that came to be called the “Scruggs style.” In December 1945, he joined Bill Monroe (Monroe, Bill)'s Blue Grass Boys, which had not previously featured a banjoist. This group became the prototypical bluegrass band and was often heard on the Grand Ole Opry radio show.

      In 1948 Scruggs and Lester Flatt, the guitarist and tenor singer in the group, left to form their own band, the Foggy Mountain Boys. Flatt & Scruggs became one of the great bluegrass bands in its own right, making dozens of records in the 1950s and '60s. Scruggs's original instrumental compositions—including “Foggy Mountain Breakdown,” “Flint Hill Special,” and “Earl's Breakdown”—were especially popular.

      Flatt and Scruggs parted ways in 1969, and Scruggs joined his sons Gary, Randy, and later Steve in an electrified country-rock ensemble, the Earl Scruggs Revue. In 1980 Scruggs left full-time performing but continued to record music in a variety of styles. Scruggs was inducted into the Country Music Association Hall of Fame in 1985.

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