You may not know the name Earl Scruggs, but you certainly know his sounds. Earl Scruggs, who was born 95 years ago this month, may have passed away years ago, but his contributions to music are so ...

Banjo innovator Tony Trischka will bring stories, songs and memories of bluegrass legends to the Museum of Making Music in ...

Vintage footage of Earl Scruggs is displayed on an old televisIon at the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby in 2014. CHARLOTTE OBSERVER FILE PHOTO This excerpt from “Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain ...

On this day (May 11) in 1979, Lester Flatt died of heart failure in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 64. Most remember him as half of Flatt & Scruggs, the foundational bluegrass duo. He and Earl ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Moments before Earl Scruggs' silver-colored casket was escorted from the historic home of the Grand Ole Opry Sunday, a video of Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys ...

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, ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- With the 2015 International Bluegrass Music Awards and Wide Open Bluegrass festival in Raleigh this week, musicians from around the world are flocking to the Triangle. They're taking ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He ...

Bluegrass fans will see a familiar face if they're searching the internet on Friday (Jan. 11): The iconic Earl Scruggs is the subject of the day's Google Doodle. Access Google.com on Friday, and ...

Randy Scruggs earned four Grammys, two ACM Awards and five CMAs during a distinguished career as a country music songwriter, musician and producer. The second son to the legendary Earl Scruggs also ...