Earl Scruggs

Buck, Elton, Whitney, JB, Dylan among Grammy Hall inductees

2012-11-21 11:03:00

The Recording Academy has announced its annual list of works to be entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and they include recordings by Big Mama Thornton, Buck Owens, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, Whitney Houston and 22 others. As explained in...

Southern California Close-up: Westside of Los Angeles

2012-06-05 10:03:00

First published on Sept. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. You're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles -- not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa...

Kitty Wells, the 'undisputed queen of country music,' dies at 92

2012-07-16 00:00:00

Kitty Wells, the long-reigning “Queen of Country Music” and the first woman to reach No. 1 on the country chart with her attitude-changing hit “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” died Monday at age 92 of complications...

Guitarist Doc Watson dead at 89: A 1-2-3 video primer

2012-05-29 21:36:57

An appreciation: Doc Watson, flatpicker, song stylist, messenger

2012-05-30 16:36:36

An appreciation: Doug Dillard was 'my mentor,' John McEuen says

2012-05-22 21:37:25

Doug Dillard dies at 75; banjo player, member of the Dillards band

2012-05-18 00:00:00

Bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs answered a knock at the door of his Nashville home in 1953 to find an eager-looking banjo enthusiast on the porch asking Scruggs to put a set of his special tuner keys on the young man's instrument. "He was so...

Banjo picker Doug Dillard dies at 75; appeared on 'Andy Griffith'

2012-05-17 16:36:48

Earl Scruggs dies at 88; banjo legend was half of Flatt & Scruggs

2012-03-29 00:00:00

Bill Monroe, the man widely acknowledged as the father of bluegrass music, was in search of a new banjo player for his famed Blue Grass Boys when a young musician turned up backstage at Nashville's celebrated Ryman Auditorium during a 1945 Grand Ole...

Earl Scruggs, bluegrass legend, dies at age 88

2012-03-28 21:38:10

The Morning Fix: Couric's back, sort of. Our cost for Dodgers deal?

2012-03-29 16:34:04

Earl Scruggs: Remembering a bluegrass and American music legend

2012-03-28 21:38:09

Earl Scruggs, banjo and bluegrass legend, passed away March 28 at the age of 88.

2012-04-01 20:41:00

Listening to Flatt & Scruggs version of Pete Seeger's Where Have All The Flowers Gone before I go to bed in honor of Earl Scruggs. RIP or If I was on that Jet Blue flight I would have definitely wrestled that pilot to the ground... right after I [bleep] my pants. (We said "bleep.

2012-03-29 00:00:00

Bluegrass banjo legend Earl Scruggs died Wednesday at age 88. Despite a long and influential career, it's a safe bet most people remember him for his banjo picking alongside partner Lester Flatt for the theme song to the TV show "The Beverly Hillbillies.

2011-11-05 00:00:00