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Scruggs, Earl

LC control no.n 82096233
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LC classificationML419.S38 Biography
Personal name headingScruggs, Earl
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See alsoCorporate body: Foggy Mountain Boys
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1924-01-06
Death date2012-03-28
Profession or occupationBluegrass musicians Banjoists
Special noteDo not consider "Flatt & Scruggs" to be a corporate body. They were members of a body called Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mountain Boys, for which 3 access points are made.
Found inFolk songs of our land. [Phonodisc] 1962.
McCloud, B. Definitive country (Scruggs, Earl; given name: Earl Eugene Scruggs; b. Jan. 6, 1924, Cleveland Co., N.C.; banjo, guitar)
Biography Lester Flatt homepage, viewed Oct. 22, 2010 (Lester Flatt, Lester Flatt Raymond; b. June 19, 1914, performed with Earl Scruggs known under Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys)
New York times WWW site, Mar. 29, 2012 (Earl Scruggs; b. Earl Eugene Scruggs, Jan. 6, 1924, Flint Hill, N.C.; d. Wednesday [Mar. 28, 2012], Nashville, aged 88; bluegrass banjo player whose hard-driving picking style influenced generations of players and helped shape the sound of 20th-century country music with his guitar-playing partner, Lester Flatt)