Earl Scruggs Banjo is playing, singing and composing that great twanging bluegrass themes for TV The Beverly Hillbillies and Bonnie and Clyde film reached the top of the chart position in the '60s, died Wednesday of natural causes in a Nashville hospital, his son Gary Scruggs told CNN. He was the 88th
"It's not just bluegrass, it's American music," bluegrass fan-turned-country star Dierks Bentley told The Associated Press on the production Scruggs is.
"There is a 17 -. Or 18-year-olds turning to country music today and listen to Banjo and they have no idea where it came from the sound has probably always been there for them and they do not realize some find that three finger roll style of play. You hear it everywhere. "
Scruggs was born in North Carolina in a family where everyone played an instrument, and, his biography, he could play the Banjo by the time he was 4 and started to develop his unique (and continuing) three-finger style of 10.
"It's not just bluegrass, it's American music," bluegrass fan-turned-country star Dierks Bentley told The Associated Press on the production Scruggs is.
"There is a 17 -. Or 18-year-olds turning to country music today and listen to Banjo and they have no idea where it came from the sound has probably always been there for them and they do not realize some find that three finger roll style of play. You hear it everywhere. "
Scruggs was born in North Carolina in a family where everyone played an instrument, and, his biography, he could play the Banjo by the time he was 4 and started to develop his unique (and continuing) three-finger style of 10.
In 1945, in cooperation with the Lester Flatt and held their cooperation lasted nearly 25 years. (Flatt died in 1979, 10 years after the duo retired their act together.) In 1985 they were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
To pursue music in 1967 Gangster film Bonnie and Clyde, called "Breakdown Foggy Bottom" features a lengthy solo by Scruggs, was actually first written by Flatt and Scruggs in 1949.
The Beverly Hillbillies theme "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" ("Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed / A poor Mountaineer barely kept his family fed ...") opened a show for every aspect of the 1962 -71 run. In one story arc in the series, both Flatt and Scruggs vied for an existing provider of Granny Clampett Irene Ryan) - at least so she thought.
Scruggs and former Anne Louise Certain married in 1948. She died in 2006. Besides Gary Scruggs is also survived by another son, and Randy.
