Blog: TwentyFourBit

The great banjo player, co-founder of bluegrass, and country music legend Earl Scruggs died today in Nashville at 88, reports Billboard . With a career spanning from 1945 - when his signature three-finger picking style first made its mark on the genre alongside Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys - until last fall - when I had the good fortune of seeing Scruggs perform for the third time in as many years at SF's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival - his indelible influence on music cannot be understated. Tributes and obits will be arriving in the days [...]