Earl Scruggs dies at 88; banjo legend was half of Flatt & Scruggs

His distinctive three-finger playing style became the touchstone for thousands of instrumentalists who followed. With Flatt, he played the 'Beverly Hillbillies' theme. Later he teamed with his sons.

Bill Monroe, the man widely acknowledged as the father of bluegrass music, was in search of a new banjo player for his famed Blue Grass Boys when a young musician turned up backstage at Nashville's celebrated Ryman Auditorium during a 1945 Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast, hoping to audition.

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