Pioneering banjo entertainer Earl Scruggs, who is broadly famous to have modernized nation music, has died aged 88. The musician died of normal causes at a Nashville hospital on Wednesday 28th March.
Earl Scruggs was known for his exclusive banjo playing performance, which caught up just three fingers. This method after-wards became known as the 'Scruggs picking style'. In 1948, Earl Scruggs teamed up with Lester Flatt to form the Foggy Mountain Boys, also known as Flatt and Scruggs. The pair cemented bluegrass music's situate in well-liked culture; one of their most well known records included Foggy Mountain Breakdown, which featured in the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde.
In 1992, Earl Scruggs was among 13 recipients of a National Medal of Arts. In 2005,'Foggy Mountain Breakdown' was elected for the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry.
Hollywood actor and fellow banjo player Steve Martin states that, 'a grand part of American music owes a debt to Earl Scruggs. Few players have changed the way we hear an instrument the way Earl has, putting him in a category with Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Chet Atkins, and Jimi Hendrix'.
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