Many may not be aware of the many accomplishments of Louis Scruggs,. She was a true pioneer in the music business booking and managing Flatt & Scruggs and later the Earl Scruggs Review. Earl recently stated that in the before GPS or even Mapquest, Louise would give him turn by turn directions to their appearances, just one small illustration of her attention to detail.
The Nashville Scene published a detailed article on Louise at the time of her passing in 2006, an excerpt follows.
"A reserved but iron-willed woman who was raising two young sons at the time she began assuming responsibility for Flatt & Scruggs’ business, Louise had been interested in business from her childhood. She wasn’t surprised by the resistance she encountered. “They always wanted to talk to Earl,” she recalled in a 2005 interview with the Scene. “But I would say, ‘No, you have to go through me anyway, so you might as well talk to me now and then we’ll get this settled.’ ” Neither was she daunted by this resistance. Louise’s demonstrable talent for the job led to her taking on growing responsibility for Flatt & Scruggs’ career—and, as she managed their relationship with Columbia Records and took them into promising fields like the folk music revival of the early ’60s, their success. “She was to the business,” says Marty Stuart, “what Lester and Earl were to the music.” Louise was fiercely and justifiably devoted to the reputation of her husband’s banjo innovations as the critical element in bluegrass."
The complete article can be found here -
http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/louise-scruggs-1927-2006/Content?oid=1192802
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