Earl Scruggs: 1924-2012

Musician Earl Scruggs performs onstage during day one of California's Stagecoach Country Music Festival held at the Empire Polo Club on April 25, 2009, in Indio, Calif.

Scruggs' son Gary said his father died March 28, 2012, at a Nashville, Tenn., hospital of natural causes. He was 88.

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