Earl Eugene Scruggs is a musician noted for creating a banjo style (now called Scruggs style) that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass.
Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in late 1945 and his syncopated, three-finger picking style quickly became a sensation. In 1948 Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt left Monroe's band and formed Flatt and Scruggs. In 1969, Flatt and Scruggs broke up and Scruggs started a new band, the Earl Scruggs Revue, featuring several of his sons.
Flatt and Scruggs won a Grammy Award in 1969 for Scruggs' instrumental Foggy Mountain Breakdown. Scruggs was an inaugural inductee into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1991.
On February 13, 2003, Scruggs received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Scruggs' wife and manager Louise Scruggs died on February 02, 2006 at the age of 78 at Nashville, TN's Baptist Hospital following a lengthy illness.
