[1][2] A film exists of him performing the folk ballad “Little Log Cabin Round the Lane” in a minstrel style.
The footage was taken by the Fox Movietone News on November 8, 1928, in Powhatan, Virginia.
John Scruggs played 5-string banjo in the traditional clawhammer style.
[1][3][4] Uncle John appears in a mural called "All in the Family II", which is displayed at the Sherrod Library at East Tennessee State University.
The mural displays the important role that African-American musicians have played in the evolution of American music.