AceShowbiz - Multiple Grammy winner Randy Scruggs has died, aged 64. The country music producer, songwriter and studio owner passed away on Tuesday, April 17, following a brief illness.

Scruggs picked up four Grammys for his instrumental work from 1989 to 2001 and was named CMA Musician of the Year in 1999, 2003 and 2006. He also produced recordings by Waylon Jennings, Toby Keith and Alison Krauss among others, and performed with the likes of Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, George Strait, Vince Gill and Miranda Lambert.

Scruggs made his professional debut at the age of nine, performing with his dad, pioneering banjo player Earl Scruggs and his partner Lester Flatt's popular syndicated TV series, and went on to record two albums with brother Gary in the late 1960s. The siblings then formed country-rock band the Earl Scruggs Revue with their father.

He later became an award-winning songwriter and studio boss, creating the Scruggs Sound facility in Nashville,Tennessee.

Scruggs was back in the charts in the late 1990s with his all-star album "Crown of Jewels", which featured his father, Emmylou Harris, and Trisha Yearwood, among others, and he was still recording right up until his death.

He was among the guitar players on the new "Johnny Cash: Forever Words" project, and he also appeared on recent recordings by Loretta Lynn, the Pistol Annies and Kellie Pickler.