NASHVILLE -- His fame is such that he's referred to simply as Earl, and his fiery, rolling, three-finger attack as "Scruggs style." As the man who single-handedly transformed the banjo from a modest ...

If you know how to play the banjo, you’ve probably learned how to play “Foggy Mountain Breakdown.” The same goes for students of guitar, violin, mandolin, and more—the song has become a standard for ...

After a lifetime of taking his banjo playing to new places, Tony Trischka is going back to the source of bluegrass banjo as we know it: Earl Scruggs. “It’s rare that one man defines a whole style,” ...