Artist
Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs is a bluegrass artist from Flint Hill community, North Carolina, USA formed in 1924. 32 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Bluegrass · Flint Hill community, North Carolina, USA · Best bluegrass albums
- 32
- Releases
- 1957–2023
- Active years
- 1924
- Formed
Discography
30
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The Three Pickers
2003 · 23 tracks
Earl Scruggs and Friends
2001
Dueling Banjos
1973
Country Music
2023
Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Collection 1948-62
2021
The Ballad of Jed Clampett, the Best of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
2021
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Flatt & Scruggs
2020
Flatt & Scruggs - The Complete Mercury Recordings
2019
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs With The Foggy Mountain Boys
2019
Original Theme From Bonnie & Clyde
2019
The Storyteller and the Banjo Man
2017
It Won't Be Long
2015
On My Mind
2015
Allen Fontenot & The Country Cajuns
2015
Dancing Cowboys
2014
The Essential Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
2014
Strictly Instrumental (with Doc Watson)
2013
In Loving Memory (1924-2012)
2012
Foggy Mountain Banjo
2012
The Ultimate Collection (1924-2012)
2012
Nashville's Rock
2011
I Saw The Light With Some Help From My Friends
2005
Classic Bluegrass Live 1959-1966 (Live)
2002
When The Saints Go Marching In
2000
The Complete Mercury Sessions
1992
Columbia Records Country Music Foundation Heritage Edition
1987
The Essential Earl Scruggs
1980
Hard Travelin' (with The Foggy Mountain Boys)
1963
Songs of the Famous Carter Family
1961
Foggy Mountain Jamboree
1957
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About
Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a three-finger banjo-picking style (now called "Scruggs style") that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. Although other musicians had played in three-finger style before him, Scruggs shot to prominence when he was hired by Bill Monroe to fill the banjo slot in his group, the Blue Grass Boys. In 1948 Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt left Monroe's band and formed the Foggy Mountain Boys, also later known simply as Flatt and Scruggs. Flatt and Scruggs became members of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1950s. In 1969, they broke up, and he started a new band, the Earl Scruggs Revue, featuring several of his sons.
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On September 24, 1962, singer Jerry Scoggins, Lester Flatt, and Scruggs recorded "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" for the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies, which was released October 12, 1962. The theme song became an immediate country music hit and was played at the beginning and end of each episode. Flatt and Scruggs appeared in several episodes as family friends of the Clampetts in the following years. In their first appearance (season 1 episode 20), they portray themselves in the show and perform both the theme song and "Pearl, Pearl, Pearl".
Earl Scruggs in brief
- How many Earl Scruggs releases are on Riffiter?
- 32 releases are catalogued, spanning 1957 to 2023.
- When was Earl Scruggs formed?
- Earl Scruggs formed in 1924, in Flint Hill community, North Carolina, USA.
- What genre is Earl Scruggs?
- Earl Scruggs is catalogued under Bluegrass.
- What is the most recent Earl Scruggs release on Riffiter?
- Country Music, released in 2023.