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Earl Scruggs
Acting
06 Jan 1924
† 28 Mar 2012
Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
Biography
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.
Also Known As
Earl Eugene Scruggs
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Earl Scruggs's Movies
72%
Give Me the Banjo
04 Nov 2011
70%
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music
01 Apr 1992
58%
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
06 Oct 1981
57%
The Three Pickers
15 Jul 2003
95%
Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music
31 May 1993
90%
Country Music on Broadway
05 Nov 1965
100%
Opry Video Classics: Pioneers
21 Nov 2007
50%
50 Years of Country Music
22 Jan 1978
0%
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
01 Jun 1972
0%
Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music
30 Aug 2019
0%
CMT Most Wanted Live: "A Very Special Acoustic Christmas"
03 Dec 2003
0%
Bluegrass Country Soul
01 Jul 1972
0%
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show, Vol. 1
27 Mar 2007
