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Earl Scruggs
Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
Earl Eugene Scruggs was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass…
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Earl Eugene Scruggs was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. His three-finger style of playing was radically different from the traditional way the five-string banjo had previously been played.
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2019
Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2011
Give Me the Banjo
Movie Self
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2007
Opry Video Classics: Pioneers
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2007
- 2003
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2003
The Three Pickers
Movie Self
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1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV show Self - Musical Guest
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1993
Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music
Movie Self
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1992
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music
Movie Self
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1990
American Music Shop
TV show Self
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1981
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
Movie Self
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1978
50 Years of Country Music
Movie Self
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1975
Austin City Limits
TV show Self
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1974
Where the Lilies Bloom
Movie Original Music Composer
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1972
The Midnight Special
TV show Self
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1972
Bluegrass Country Soul
Movie Self
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1972
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
Movie Self
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1965
Country Music on Broadway
Movie Self
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1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV show Self
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self
