Wade Mainer, a country music pioneer credited with inventing the two-finger banjo-picking style that paved the way for the bluegrass era, has died. He was 104. Mainer, born near Asheville, died at his ...
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 ...
DETROIT — Wade Mainer, a country music pioneer who is credited with inventing the two-finger banjo picking style that paved the way for the bluegrass era, has died ...