What: “Earl Scruggs & Friends,” the first new album in 17 years from the 77-year-old bluegrass banjo master. When: In stores Tuesday. Who: Scruggs, with sons Randy (who also produced the album) and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Earl Scruggs was remembered Sunday as an influential, helpful and humble banjo player who put his own mark on bluegrass music. Some 2,300 mourners attended Scruggs’ public funeral ...

The Bluegrass Hall of Fame says Shelby, North Carolina native Earl Scruggs “not only pioneered the three-finger banjo but played it to standards of taste and technique unmatched by thousands of ...

Louise Scruggs, 78, who as the wife and manager of banjo legend Earl Scruggs helped broaden the audience for bluegrass and country music, died Thursday in Nashville. Her family said she had ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, "This one goes out to ...