Earl Scruggs became a household name in the early 1960s when he and Lester Flatt joined vocalist Jerry Scroggins in recording "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," becoming the theme song for the hit ...

Sixty-three years ago today, bluegrass legends Flatt and Scruggs were at No. 1 for the first and only time with a classic ...

Popular music in North America entered a revolutionary stage in the 1940s, and a handful of recordings from the decade document the shift into music that was more virtuosic than what had come before.

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 ...

Already a giant of American music, bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs would seem to have nothing left to prove. The 78-year-old North Carolina native is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, ...