From: gcmccoury@yahoo.com   
      
    2/3/06   
   Louise Scruggs, who bucked the male-dominated country music industry by   
   managing her banjo-playing husband Earl Scruggs, has died, hospital   
   officials said on Friday.   
      
   Scruggs, 78, died on Thursday at Baptist Hospital in Nashville from   
   complications of a respiratory illness, a hospital spokesman said.   
      
   Often described by her husband as "99 percent of my career," she was the   
   first female manager in country music, helping him become a star in   
   bluegrass music with long-time partner Lester Flatt, then cross over into   
   folk, rock-pop and other genres.   
      
   She booked his performances, accompanied him to shows, handled the business   
   side of his contracts and promoted his music to television and films. She   
   also raised their three sons.   
      
   Earl Scruggs, who survives his wife, provided the theme song for   
   television's "The Beverly Hillbillies" and the background music for the 1972   
   movie "Deliverance." His "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" was used on the   
   soundtrack for the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde."   
      
   Scruggs met her husband on the Grand Ole Opry country music radio program   
   where he was playing with Bill Monroe's band and developing his   
   revolutionary, hard-driving "three finger" style on the banjo.   
      
   They were married in 1948 and she doggedly ran her husband's career in an   
   industry she called sexist.   
      
   "You have to remember, male businessmen were all sexist," she once told   
   Reuters in an interview. "Earl told me not to worry because they were just   
   afraid of me. So I went on letting them be afraid and when they found they   
   had to deal with me to get to him, they gave up."   
      
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