Melissa Block talks with banjo legend Earl Scruggs about the release of a new DVD, The Best of the Flatt & Scruggs TV Show. The famous duo... Earl Scruggs on Country Music, and His Role in It MELISSA ...

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

A Martin D-18 guitar that bluegrass icon Lester Flatt played numerous times on the Grand Ole Opry and with the Foggy Mountain Boys is up for auction from Heritage Auctions. The instrument was listed ...

Earl Scruggs became a household name in the early 1960s when he and Lester Flatt joined vocalist Jerry Scroggins in recording "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," becoming the theme song for the hit ...

We mark the 100th anniversary of The Grand Ole Opry, country music’s biggest stage, and feature interviews with two of its members. First up, bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs. He and guitarist ...

Lester Flatt’s Martin D-18 acoustic guitar – an instrument that helped pave the way for traditional bluegrass music – is set to be sold at auction. It headlines Heritage Auction’s upcoming event, set ...

Through his work as a solo artist, session musician, collaborator, and member of a host of bluegrass groups over the past 50 years, Jerry Douglas has established himself as arguably the premier Dobro ...

Jerry Douglas' new album, which he also produced, is a tribute to the influential bluegrass band the Foggy Mountain Boys, led by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. That's the band that got Douglas into ...

While the lyrics of the TV theme and the single version of “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” are largely the same, there are some major differences between the two versions. First and foremost, Lester ...