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About Earl Scruggs
Earl Eugene Scruggs, the most influential and imitated banjo player in the world, was born on a forty-acre cotton farm in the little Flint Hill community of Cleveland County on January 6, 1924.
The youngest child of George Elam Scruggs and Lula Ruppe Scruggs, Earl grew up in a musical family.
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His father, who passed away when Earl was only four years old, played a frailing style of 5-string banjo and fiddle, his mother played pump organ and his older siblings Junie, Horace, Eula Mae and Ruby, all played guitar and banjo.
At age four, Earl began learning to pick his father’s open back banjo.
At age ten, he advanced to a more complicated 3-finger banjo style, using a “forward roll” he learned from a few of the older banjo pickers in the region. Over the next several years, Earl devised new picking rolls and timing patterns that enabled him to play in a more syncopated, hard-driving manner that accentuated the melody lines in a song.
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