It’s been confirmed time and time once more in nation music that pedigree is usually a actual factor. That’s most actually the case with regards to the Home of Scruggs. The household’s grand patriarch is in fact Earl Scruggs himself, one an important banjo gamers of all time, a lot in order that he has his personal banjo method (Scruggs model) named after him. And as time has gone on, the apples haven’t fallen too removed from the tree.
Earl’s two sons Randy (d. 2019) and Gary (d. 2021) had been additionally large gamers in nation music. Each had been renown session musicians, touring musicians, songwriters, and producers who received CMAs, Grammy Awards, and accrued 1000’s of studio and songwriter credit between them. Additionally they carried out with their father within the Earl Scruggs Revue after their father left Flatt & Scruggs, and so they performed in their very own band as nicely. Each additionally had been thought-about instrumental to the Will The Circle Be Unbroken periods with the Nitty Gritty Grime Band.
The Scruggs title has been saved alive in at the moment’s nation music due to multi-instrumentalist Chris Scruggs, who’s the grandson of Earl, and the youngest son of Gary. Chris’s mom can also be Gail Davies. The third era Scruggs got here to prominence throughout the revitalization of Decrease Broadway in Nashville performing within the throwback nation band BR549. Chris has since turn into probably the most revered musicians and producers in Nashville, and can also be a everlasting member of Marty Stuart’s Fabulous Superlatives.
For some time, the younger son of Chris Scruggs has been seen on stage as nicely. Ben Scruggs has been a enjoyable function as a cute child who comes up on stage and says precocious issues. Just like his father and grandfather, he’s grown up across the music. However now that Ben is 10-years-old, issues are beginning to get way more critical for the younger man.
Just like Randy, Gary, and Chris, Ben Scruggs is discovering his approach in additional vintage-sounding music. However for Ben, that comes within the type of rockabilly. Although solely obtainable on CD in the meanwhile, he’s recorded a number of Solar Information classics that he’s been passing round, and by all accounts, the younger man has one thing. That’s what Marty Stuart thought, and so did the Grand Ole Opry, who invited him to carry out.
On Saturday (March 1st), Ben Scruggs formally made his Grand Ole Opry debut as a visitor of Marty Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives, performing alternatives from his rockabilly album, and obtained not one, not two, however three standing ovations type the Opry viewers.
The forth era Scruggs says he now desires to start out recording extra authentic materials, hoping to make his approach into historic RCA Studio B, and make a critical profession of creating music. It seems the Scruggs title received’t be fading from reminiscence anytime quickly.
