Legendary country musician Earl Scruggs, best known for defining bluegrass music with his unique fingerpicking style on the banjo, was celebrated in a Google Doodle on Friday. His own “Scruggs style” ...

NASHVILLE -- His fame is such that he's referred to simply as Earl, and his fiery, rolling, three-finger attack as "Scruggs style." As the man who single-handedly transformed the banjo from a modest ...

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If you know American bluegrass music, you know Earl Scruggs. Today, Google's doodle team created an animated illustration in honor of the famed banjo-picking pioneer, who would have celebrated his ...

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Earl Scruggs, the banjo virtuoso whose blazing three-finger attack – now commonly called “Scruggs style” – revolutionized the instrument’s use in bluegrass and country music, died Wednesday morning at ...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (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. He had been in ...

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 ...

Today, Google’s doodle team created an animated illustration in honor of the famed banjo-picking pioneer, who would have celebrated his 95th birthday on Sunday, Jan. 6. Friday marks five years since ...