A Look Back At The Hidden Earl Scruggs

Earl Scruggs perfected a banjo style often imitated but never equaled. By Malcolm Jones.</p

Children," from the banjo legend's work with Lester Flatt, reveals Scruggs to be brilliant on the guitar, too. Earl Scruggs, who died Wednesday at age 88, was the banjo player of his time, right? Right.

Scruggs died yesterday at the age of 88 at a hospital in Nashville, the New York Times confirms. Scruggs' distinctive picking s.

Music legend Earl Scruggs passed away yesterday of natural causes. He was 88. Scruggs developed his own unique style of banjo playing which attracted the attention of Bill Monroe in 1945.

Earl Scruggs perfected a banjo style often imitated but never equaled. By Malcolm Jones.

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 was 88.