Earl Scruggs held overnight at N.C. hospital

Earl Scruggs held overnight at N.C. hospital


Published by Peter Cooper on September 16, 2010




Country Music Hall of Famer and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Earl Scruggs spent
Wednesday, Sept. 15 in a North Carolina hospital.

Scruggs, 86, was to have played a sold-out show on Wednesday at the University of North Carolina
in Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall, but was taken to a hospital and held overnight.

The Red Clay Ramblers, who had been pegged as Scruggs' opening act, wound up playing the show
in his absence.

Scruggs entered Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys band in late 1945, and his rapid-fire method of playing
the banjo is a central ingredient in what is now known as bluegrass music. With his Flatt & Scruggs
band, he helped to popularize bluegrass as a viable genre, and in his solo career he has contributed
genre-leaping albums and concerts.

He is scheduled to join sons Gary and Randy Scruggs during a tribute to his late wife, Louise Scruggs,
at the International Bluegrass Music Association's awards show on Sept. 30 at the Ryman Auditorium.


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