Mary Esta will be remembered for her quick wit and wonderful sense of humor, her boundless generosity, nurturing spirit.

A statue of Earl Scruggs at the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby. tsumlin@charlotteobserver.com Whatever you’ve accomplished in your life, chances are you didn’t make history at age 10. But Earl Scruggs, ...

Earl Scruggs became a household name in the early 1960s when he and Lester Flatt joined vocalist Jerry Scroggins in recording "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," becoming the theme song for the hit ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – It is impossible to overstate the importance of Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

Scruggs died Wednesday morning at age 88 of natural causes. The legacy he helped build with bandleader Bill Monroe, guitarist Lester Flatt and the rest of the Blue Grass Boys was evident all around ...

John “Dicky” Lucian Scruggs, 88, of 163 Ann’s Trail, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, June 22, 2025 at his residence. Born in Chesnee, he was the husband of the late Alice Rogers Scruggs and ...

It is with a broken heart that we share the passing of our father Don Scruggs on June 12. He was just diagnosed a few weeks prior with stage 4 agressive lung cancer. Don had such a whitty sense of ...