It’s hard to catch your breath in bluegrass. The hail of banjo, dobro, mandolin, bass and fiddle merge into a stylized tornado of sound that’s as passionate and swirling as it is technical. Upbeat ...

Editor’s note: This is the 471st in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes. Music historians view the duo of singer and guitarist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs as one ...

When the Earls of Leicester formed in 2013, their mission was ambitious but exact: to preserve and promote the legacy of bluegrass legends Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, in hopes of reviving the duo’s ...

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 ...

Through his work as a solo artist, session musician, collaborator, and member of a host of bluegrass groups over the past 50 years, Jerry Douglas has established himself as arguably the premier Dobro ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.

For four hours on Saturday evening, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium hosted the persistent, echoing crescendo of a capacity crowd of foot-stomping bluegrass devotees celebrating banjo player Earl Scruggs' ...

Backstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival in North Carolina, Marty Stuart has just finished a whirlwind set on the Flint Hill Stage. A blitzkrieg of country, bluegrass, and rock, Stuart & His ...

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 ...

Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – It is impossible to overstate the importance of Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly ...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:22:43 GMT — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) â?? It may be impossible to overstate the importance of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped ...