Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and their band members pose with their bus that took them to live TV shows in a number of southern cities. Their first live show was aired from the Huntington studio of ...

Bluegrass players Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were integral to the development of the Grand Ole Opry and WSM-AM during the station's heyday.

Banjo player David Johnston was first turned on to bluegrass when he was in college. The music reminded him of a bygone era, and he especially loved the music of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and ...

Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.

DOUGLAS: Josh Graves was a dobro player with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. And he was really the first person to use a three-fingered roll - use all three figures to play ...

Taylor was said to have been heartbroken when Flatt and his banjo partner, Earl Scruggs, departed Monroe’s band in the 1950s. Eventually, he tracked down the pair, who were performing together ...

The Earls' upcoming Newport appearance points back to the very beginnings of the folk festival: Flatt and Scruggs played it in 1959, the festival’s second year, and again in 1966.

When Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs took the Ryman Auditorium stage with Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys for their first appearance together on the Grand Ole Opry on December 8th, 1945, the ...

Scruggs, Earl Earl Scruggs, the banjo virtuoso whose blazing three-finger attack - now commonly called "Scruggs style" - revolutionized the instrument's use in bluegrass and country music, died ...

Earl Scruggs, the bluegrass banjo player whose hard-driving picking style influenced generations of players and helped shape the sound of 20th-century country music with his guitar-playing partner ...

Bluegrass fans will see a familiar face if they're searching the internet on Friday (Jan. 11): The iconic Earl Scruggs is the subject of the day's Google Doodle. Access Google.com on Friday, and ...

Jerry Douglas, considered by many to be the best dobro player in the world, brings his instrument to the studio and talks about his new album, The Earls of Leceister, a tribute to Flatt and Scruggs.