Raleigh News & Observer

How Earl Scruggs learned that he could make a career out of making music

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 ...
Nashville Scene

Instruments From the Estate of Earl Scruggs Available at Gruhn Guitars

When bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs died in 2012 at age 88, it was no exaggeration to mark it as the passing of one of the genre's founding fathers. The characteristic banjo style he developed still ...
Raleigh News & Observer

This showroom of Earl Scruggs memorabilia is considered the ‘Louvre of traditional bluegrass,’ and it’s in Durham

Earl Scruggs would have turned 95 on Jan. 6, 2019. On Jan. 11, he is the star of a Google Doodle. This story about Scruggs memorabilia originally was published Sept. 21, 2017. Jim Mills spent decades ...
Inverse

Earl Scruggs: One Epic Video Sums Up His Innovative Style and Influence

There’s an amazing video on Youtube, uploaded nearly ten years ago now. It has 6.5 million views and more than 2,400 comments, most of them expressing appreciation. It also has more than 27,000 likes ...