Charlie Daniels may have summed up Earl Scruggs' contribution to country music the best. "No one will ever play the banjo like Earl," the famous fiddle player said on Sunday, as over two thousand fans and contemporaries gathered around him at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
Services for country and bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs are planned for Sunday (April 1) at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The funeral will be held at the one-time home of the Grand Ole Opry, beginning at 2PM CT, with visitation scheduled at the Spring Hill Funeral Home in Nashville between 3 and 7PM on Friday and Saturday.
A country music legend died on Wednesday. Earl Scruggs, a bluegrass pioneer musically and socially, passed away in a Nashville hospital at the age of 88. Those most impacted -- country stars -- were quick to take to Twitter to offer thoughts and prayers.
Country Music Hall of Famer Earl Scruggs died Wednesday morning at a Nashville hospital. The bluegrass legend and one-half of the forever influential duo Flatt and Scruggs died of natural causes, according to his son Gary. He was 88.