Lester Flatt’s Martin D-18 acoustic guitar – an instrument that helped pave the way for traditional bluegrass music – is set to be sold at auction. It headlines Heritage Auction’s upcoming event, set ...

101 Salty Dog Blues / Flatt and Scruggs (Musical group), Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt. Guitar,Banjo 102 Durham's Reel / Flatt and Scruggs (Musical group), Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt. Guitar,Banjo 103 ...

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

101 Flint Hill Special / Flatt and Scruggs (Musical group), Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt. Banjo,Guitar 102 Your Love is Like a Flower / Flatt and Scruggs (Musical group), Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt.

NASHVILLE -- His fame is such that he's referred to simply as Earl, and his fiery, rolling, three-finger attack as "Scruggs style." As the man who single-handedly transformed the banjo from a modest ...

The Bluegrass Hall of Fame says Shelby, N.C., native Earl Scruggs “not only pioneered the three-finger banjo but played it to standards of taste and technique unmatched by thousands of disciples over ...

Earl Scruggs, the banjo virtuoso whose blazing three-finger attack – now commonly called “Scruggs style” – revolutionized the instrument’s use in bluegrass and country music, died Wednesday morning at ...

In Nashville, Tenn., one of the local mills advertises a self-rising ingredient for flour and meal known as Hot Rize. For the past nine years, the fortunes of Hot Rize have been rising with a couple ...