Gary Scruggs

Legendary bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs dead at 88

Arts, Culture & Media

Earl Scruggs died Tuesday night in a Nashville hospital at the age of 88. Scruggs is known for inventing the three-finger-banjo-picking “Scruggs style” of playing and for his part in creating the bluegrass genre.

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