Randy Lynn Scruggs
Class of 71
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Died: Date
A life spent giving back to the music that made his surname famous
came to a close with the April 17 passing of Randy Scruggs. The
64-year-old songwriter, producer, musician and studio owner’s death
followed a brief illness.
The middle son of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, Randy first
appeared on the Flat & Scruggs television show at age 9. He became a
session musician at age 13, applying talents he’d learned directly
from family friend Mother Maybelle Carter. As a young man in the
1970s, he lent his name and talents to projects empowered by a
renewed cultural interest in bluegrass. His contributions to “new
grass” included stints as a member of a duo with older brother Gary,
John Hartford’s Aereo-Plane Band and the Earl Scruggs Revue.
Beyond bluegrass, Earl impacted mainstream and roots-based country
music as a producer and session musician. The dozens of country,
bluegrass and gospel acts he produced or recorded sessions for
include Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris, Loretta Lynn, Alison Krauss
and Dwight Yoakam.
He was also an accomplished songwriter, penning multiple number one
singles for Earl Thomas Conley and songs for Deana Carter and Sawyer
Brown.
In 1979, he founded Scruggs Sound Studio in Berry Hill, the
incubator for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s second and third Will the
Circle Be Unbroken albums. The studio was recently sold to Canadian
singer-songwriter Gary Reid.
A memorial event should be announced soon. In the meantime,
donations are being accepted in Earl Scruggs’ name to MusiCares and
the T.J. Martell Foundation.
http://www.wideopencountry.com/musician-songwriter-and-producer-randy-scruggs-dies-at-age-64/
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