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Flatt and Scruggs were an American bluegrass duo. Singer and guitarist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs, both of whom had been members of Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys, from 1945 to 1948, formed the duo in 1948. Flatt and Scruggs are viewed by music historians as one of the premier bluegrass groups in the history of the genre ...
"Dueling Banjos" is a bluegrass composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. The song was composed in 1954 [ 2 ] by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos"; it contained riffs from Smith, recorded in 1955 playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player Don Reno .
Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music.
Members of the American bluegrass music band the Foggy Mountain Boys, sometimes known as Flatt and Scruggs'. Pages in category "Foggy Mountain Boys members" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Smith was also noted for his "Feudin' Banjos" (1955), which was also recorded by Lester Flatt. It was revived as "Dueling Banjos" and used as a theme song in the popular film, Deliverance (1972). Released as a single, it became a hit, played on Top 40, AOR, and country stations alike. It reached the Top Ten and hit #1 in the US and Canada. [3]
In about four hours one day in 1963, Keith and Bump drew the prototype for a more streamlined version of Scruggs's tuners. In 1964, after showing the tuners to Scruggs, Keith and Bump went into business with a couple of thousand dollars and began assembling the tuners, which they had made locally, in Bump's garage. [3]
In 1968, Earl Scruggs's band, Flatt and Scruggs, toured Japan and Watanabe described seeing the band saying "I thought I was a pretty good player at age 18. But ... when I saw Earl. His fingers changed my life." [2] In the 1972 film Bluegrass Country Soul, Watanabe is documented playing Foggy Mountain Breakdown alongside Scruggs, his role model ...
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs played guitar and banjo while he sang the lyrics. "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" was a smash hit on the charts, with Flatt singing on the single. In 1993, a retired Scoggins learned that 20th Century Fox was making a film version of the series. He called their offices only to be told that they'd had no idea he was ...