LOS ANGELES – Jerry Scoggins (search), who sang "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" (search) that introduced the comical Clampett clan on "The Beverly Hillbillies," (search) has died. He was 93. Scoggins, ...

If you’re old enough to remember “The Beverly Hillbillies,” the show’s banjo-driven theme song — “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” — might be playing your head right about now. If you aren’t, you might be ...

Banjo legend and Country Music Hall of Famer Earl Scruggs died of natural causes Wednesday at age 88, according to The Tennesseean. On the banjo, Mr. Scruggs’ three-finger picking style was fast, ...

Fans and fellow musicians packed the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville yesterday (April 1) to honor Earl Scruggs, the legendary bluegrass banjo player who died last Wednesday at the age of 88. Famous for ...

It was a decade ago this month when I reviewed “The Beverly Hillbillies, The Musical” for the 2014 world premiere staged at Theatre at the Center at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts in ...

The birth of banjo great Earl Scruggs — born 96 years ago on January 6th, 1924, in the Cleveland County community of Flint Hill, North Carolina — predated the debut of the Grand Ole Opry by less than ...

Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs died yesterday at the age of 88 at a hospital in Nashville, the New York Times confirms. Scruggs’ distinctive picking style on the banjo influenced generations of ...

It was 1963 and 17-year-old John McEuen was hanging out with his best friend Steve Martin – yes, that Steve Martin – in Garden Grove when his older brother came by with a friend who owned a music shop ...

Jerry Scoggins, who sang “The Ballad of Jed Clampett,” which introduced the comical clan on “The Beverly Hillbillies,” has died. He was 93. He died at his home Tuesday of natural causes, the Los ...