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Earl Scruggs

1924 - 2012

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Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. His three-finger style of playing was radically different from the traditional way the five-string banjo had previously been played. This new style of playing became popular and elevated the banjo from its previous role as a background rhythm instrument to featured solo status. He popularized the instrument across several genres of music. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Earl Scruggs is the 1,347th most popular composer (down from 1,336th in 2019), the 10,887th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,960th in 2019) and the 115th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Earl Scruggs ranks 1,347 out of 1,451. Before him are Tibor Serly, Henry Lawes, Vicente Amigo, Qigang Chen, Norman Dello Joio, and Edmund Rubbra. After him are Jocelyn Pook, Pritam, Anne Dudley, Lou Harrison, Robert Russell Bennett, and Vladimír Godár.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Earl Scruggs ranks 458. Before him are Stanley Jaki, Mark Lenard, Sam Jones, Hugh Huxley, Jeremiah Denton, and Jocelyne LaGarde. After him are Jackie Milburn, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Jack Weston, Harvey Kurtzman, Paulo Muwanga, and Matti Kassila. Among people deceased in 2012, Earl Scruggs ranks 418. Before him are Joel Goldsmith, Fidélis, J. J. C. Smart, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Doc Watson, and Phyllis Thaxter. After him are Charles Colson, Mike Sparken, Héctor Camacho, Salvador Reyes Monteón, Ronald Stretton, and Maja Bošković-Stulli.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Earl Scruggs ranks 10,889 out of 20,380. Before him are Harriet Hosmer (1830), Caeleb Dressel (1996), Eugene Pallette (1889), Clara Kimball Young (1890), Dennis Boutsikaris (1952), and Shirley Stobs (1942). After him are Emile Hirsch (1985), Elliott Coues (1842), Mick Garris (1951), Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861), Brad Delp (1951), and Charles Colson (1931).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Earl Scruggs ranks 115. Before him are Bruce Broughton (1945), Vincent Persichetti (1915), David Del Tredici (1937), Mark Mancina (1957), Joel Goldsmith (1957), and Norman Dello Joio (1913). After him are Lou Harrison (1917), Robert Russell Bennett (1894), George Bruns (1914), Jerry Herman (1931), Roy Harris (1898), and Eubie Blake (2).

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