Earl Scruggs (born January 6, 1924, Flint Hill, North Carolina) earned a place in the history of Bluegrass and Country Music as the developer of a unique instrumental style that helped to popularize the five-string banjo. During his early teens Scruggs experimented with and eventually perfected a picking technique involving the thumb and first two fingers of the right hand—a technique that came to be called the “Scruggs style.” In December 1945, he joined Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys. In 1948 S

192K views · 5.1K reactions | June 19, 1914 Lester Flatt was born in Duncan's Chapel, Tennessee. Along with partner Earl Scruggs, the guitar player and vocalist rose out of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys to become a leading figure in the development of bluegrass. Lester died in Nashville on May 11, 1979 at age 64. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985. | GatorRock | Facebook