. . "1945Z"^^ . "Earl Scruggs"@en . "Earl Eugene Scruggs"@en . . . . "1924-01-06Z"^^ . . . . . . . "2012-03-28Z"^^ . . . . . . "2012Z"^^ . "Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 \u2013 March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a three-finger banjo-picking style (now called \"Scruggs style\") that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music.Although other musicians had played in three-finger style before him, Scruggs shot to prominence when he was hired by Bill Monroe to fill the banjo slot in his group, The Blue Grass Boys."@en . . "non_vocal_instrumentalist" . . .