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    • Jan 6, 1924
    Earl Scruggs is born in Shelby, North Carolina. The innovative banjo man joins Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys in the 1940s, then forms a duo with Lester Flatt on the way to the Country Music Hall of Fame as one of bluegrass' pillars
    Feb 8, 1958
    Earl Scruggs' third son, Steve Scruggs, is born in Nashville. He goes on to play piano for several years in his father's band, The Earl Scruggs Revue
    Aug 12, 1971
    Earl Scruggs holds an all-star recording session in Nashville, recording "I Saw The Light" with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Linda Ronstadt, plus Gary, Steve and Randy Scruggs; Vassar Clements; and Norman Blake
    Sep 23, 1992
    Steve Scruggs, a former member of his dad's Earl Scruggs Revue, shoots his wife, Elizabeth, at their home in White House, Tennessee, then shoots himself as well
    Feb 2, 2006
    Louise Scruggs, the wife and manager of Earl Scruggs, dies at Nashville's Baptist Hospital from a respiratory ailment. The first female manager in bluegrass history, her relationship with Earl also produced musicians Randy, Steve and Gary Scruggs
    Mar 28, 2012
    Banjo player Earl Scruggs dies in Nashville. A bluegrass pillar, he helped establish the genre as a Bill Monroe sideman, a member of Flatt & Scruggs and a solo artist, earning a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame
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