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.
