Earl Scruggs
Born
January 06, 1924 in Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
Died
March 28, 2012
Popularity
0.8328
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.