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 ...

Chances are good the theme song from “The Beverly Hillbillies” may never have been performed in Benaroya Hall. Until Monday night, that is. Half the bluegrass team behind the “The Ballad of Jed ...

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 ...

Jerry Scoggins, who sang "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" that introduced the comical Clampett clan on "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died. He was 93. Scoggins, who was born in Texas and began his career ...

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 ...

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 ...