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 ...

On this day (January 6) in 1924, Earl Scruggs was born in Flint Hill, North Carolina. He was a member of two of the most influential bluegrass groups. Moreover, he was at the forefront of the genre in ...

While "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" became a big hit, Scruggs' wife and manager, Louise, almost put a stop to the project. Speaking with NPR in 2003, she recalled showrunner Paul Henning approaching ...

Have banjo.. will travel.. to new places, both musically & geographically That's the way "the Jed Clampett of the new millenium" likes to live & play. The very playful, prodigiously deft & eclectic ...

Jerry Scoggins, whose mellow baritone warbled “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” to introduce the eccentric, oil-rich Clampett clan from Bug Tussle in both the 1960s television series and the 1993 motion ...

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 ...

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 ...