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Legendary country musician Earl Scruggs, best known for defining bluegrass music with his unique fingerpicking style on the banjo, was celebrated in a Google Doodle on Friday. His own “Scruggs style” ...

Wade Mainer, a country music pioneer who is credited with inventing the two-finger banjo picking style, has died. He was 104. By Associated Press Wade Mainer, a country music pioneer who is credited ...

After brain surgery, tremor-stricken banjo legend is picking again. Oct. 3, 2008 — -- Eddie Adcock's fast picking and unconventional style made him world famous as a bluegrass banjo innovator.

If you know American bluegrass music, you know Earl Scruggs. Today, Google's doodle team created an animated illustration in honor of the famed banjo-picking pioneer, who would have celebrated his ...

87-year-old bluegrass banjo virtuoso Earl Scruggs will be performing at Royce Hall on Saturday with special guest Merle Jagger in a concert presented by UCLA Live. “Scruggs-style” picking, a technique ...

LITTLE ROCK — Earl Scruggs, the bluegrass banjo player whose hard-driving picking style influenced a generation of players and helped shape the sound of 20th-century country music, died Wednesday in ...

Clear your thoughts of banjo-picking as happy music. Stop those toes from tapping. If you start humming the cheerful ripple of "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms," quit it. We're at the Corcoran Gallery of ...

The banjo, for years in the background, stepped out of the shadows in the steady hands of Earl Scruggs. Beyond his many recordings and appearances, the bluegrass music legend, who died Wednesday at 88 ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Ask any good banjo picker in the world to tell you who inspired them to pick up the instrument. Chances are the answer will be Earl Scruggs. Considered a pioneer in the history of ...

For a long time now, banjo players have been coping with an enduring but inaccurate image: It’s that kid in the 1972 film Deliverance, plucking away with a blank expression on “Dueling Banjos” as Burt ...