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Earl Scruggs, the American banjo legend who brought bluegrass to a mass audience and strummed along to a hit TV show and movie in the 1960s, has died at 88, according to his son.
As part of the famed Flatt & Scruggs duo, he helped define bluegrass music — a country genre combining “high, lonesome” vocal harmonies and the playful, jazz-like cascade of guitars, banjos, mandolins and fiddles.
His son Gary said he died in Nashville from natural causes on Wednesday.
Earl Scruggs, the American banjo legend who brought bluegrass to a mass audience and strummed along to a hit TV show and movie in the 1960s, has died at 88, according to his son.
As part of the famed Flatt & Scruggs duo, he helped define bluegrass music — a country genre combining “high, lonesome” vocal harmonies and the playful, jazz-like cascade of guitars, banjos, mandolins and fiddles.
His son Gary said he died in Nashville from natural causes on Wednesday.
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