Earl Scruggs News

From John McEnroe and Jamie Oliver to Scarlett Johannson and, er, Katie Price, celebs masquerading as serious musicians are usually best observed through trembling fingers from behind a sofa.

In memory of Louise Scruggs, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will present an in-depth interview honoring visionary music industry executive Mary Martin on Tuesday, November 17, at 6 p. m. in the Ford Theater.

It's not easy to impress Luke Bulla. As a bluegrass fiddler, he's performed with Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Sam Bush and Earl Scruggs.

Bluegrass pickers have been making music at the Cassia Community Center for almost two decades.

Jeremy Morris likes to play the banjo for anybody who'll listen. The Westfield Intermediate School sixth-grader has played for his school class, his church and a local nursing home.

Kentuckian Ricky Skaggs pays loving tribute to his father, vintage country singer Hobert Skaggs, the person Ricky credits for his great love of bluegrass and country music.

My October has been bookended by two music events that are wonderful demonstrations of extraordinary generosity.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's star-studded 1972 triple-album Will The Circle Be Unbroken is regarded as the first stirrings of the nascent Americana movement, introducing The Carter Family, Roy Acuff, Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson to a young, metropolitan audience.

Patty Loveless has enjoyed great success in country music, but always held a love for the mountain music she grew up singing in her native Kentucky.

When Ricky Skaggs was 5 years old, his father handed him a mandolin. Two years later, Skaggs earned $52.50 for his first television appearance alongside the legendary Earl Scruggs.

Legacy Recordings, the world's foremost catalog music label, is continuing its on-going digital reissue initiative with a round of classic album titles, from a variety of genres, to be released for the first time in the online digital realm this fall.

Take equal measures of political satire, humorous storytelling and intelligent comedy, add some bluegrass instruments and you have the Austin Lounge Lizards.

Steve Martin would like everyone to make a video for "Wally On The Run" with their dogs.

As thousands of people flocked to this year's ninth annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park, most paid attention to the performers on the stage rather than the first aid medical tents around the parameter.

Actor Steve Martin practices his banjo in the dressing room before the start of a rehearsal concert at the Largo at the Coronet theatre in Los Angeles.

THIS IS THE story of the Steep Canyon Rangers : Woody Platt met Anne Stringfield through his brother.

Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley has written his memoirs that include stories about performers Bill Monroe, George Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Porter Wagoner, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

It seems like only yesterday that we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the founding of bluegrass music, marked by the first Grand Ole Opry performance in 1946 by the "Original Blue Grass Band:" Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Chubby Wise and Cedric Rainwater .

Jed Gottlieb writes about music, film and pop culture for local, regional and national publications.

Making national news again: David Letterman back on his late-night talk show for the first night after a weekend of dealing with fallout from his extortion/sex scandal.