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Earl Scruggs

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Durable Formula for Grand Ole Opry

Report by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 26 November 1961

NASHVILLE, TENN. After thirty-five years of broadcasting, the grand old dinosaur of American radio, Grand Ole Opry, is as boisterously alive as ever. The show ...

Flatt & Scruggs, Hearts & Flowers: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 26 February 1967

Down in the dumps ...

Flatt & Scruggs: hungry i, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 2 July 1968

Fine Flatt-Scruggs Sextet ...

Bob Johnston: ...And a PS From the Man Who Produced the Last Dylan LP

Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 9 November 1968

BOB DYLAN'S John Wesley Harding album was probably the most eagerly awaited record of the year. ...

Earl Scruggs Adds & Subtracts

Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, December 1974

DO NOT read this if you play banjo. Or, at least, hide your Earl Scruggs and the Five-String Banjo, draw the curtains on your altar, ...

Earl Scruggs: Rich Pickings

Profile and Interview by Angus Batey, MOJO, November 2001

Lightning banjo picker Earl Scruggs was there at the birth of bluegrass. Over half a century later he's back with a new album and a ...

Earl Scruggs Passes On: Three Fingers, Hippie Kids + A Grace That's Felt 'Round The World

Memoir by Holly Gleason, No Depression, 28 March 2012

I'LL NEVER LOOK at the Waffle House the same way. The one out by the Assault & Battery Lane exit, 65 South out of Nashville, ...

Earl Scruggs, 1924-2012

Obituary by Tony Russell, The Guardian, 29 March 2012

Banjo player with a breathtaking style who shaped bluegrass and explored other genres ...

see also Foggy Mountain Boys

see also Scruggs Brothers, The

see also Lester Flatt

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