Earl Scruggs
Acting · Born Jan 6, 1924 · Died Mar 28, 2012 (88) · Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
Earl Eugene Scruggs was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. His three-finger style of playing was radically different from the traditional way the five-string banjo had previously been played.
Known for
Films
Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music
2019
Give Me the Banjo
20117.2
Opry Video Classics: Pioneers
200710.0
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show, Vol. 1
2007
CMT Most Wanted Live: "A Very Special Acoustic Christmas"
2003
Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music
19939.5
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music
19927.0
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
19815.8
50 Years of Country Music
19785.0
Bluegrass Country Soul
1972
Country Music on Broadway
19659.0