Tony Trischka is widely regarded as the consummate banjo artist and one of the most influential figures in the roots music ...

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 ...

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

There are few, if any, who would question Earl Scruggs’ place as the most influential banjo player in the history of bluegrass music. Scruggs, the pioneer of the three-finger “Scruggs style” of banjo ...

Tony Trischka is considered the consummate banjo artist and one of the most influential Banjo players in the roots music world. For more than 50 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of ...

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A statue of Earl Scruggs at the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby. tsumlin@charlotteobserver.com Whatever you’ve accomplished in your life, chances are you didn’t make history at age 10. But Earl Scruggs, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 28 (Reuters) - Banjo innovator and bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, died on Wednesday at a Nashville hospital at age 88. Sign up here.