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The Fabulous Sound of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs is a studio album by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs. It was released in 1964 by Columbia Records (catalog number CL 2255). [1] [2] The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top Country Albums chart on January 2, 1965, peaked at No. 2, and remained on the chart for a total of 26 weeks. [3]
Fiddlin' John Carson's recording of "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" was one of the first commercial recordings by a rural white musician. [4] Its popularity ensured that the industry would continue recording rural folk songs. The only known recording of banjo player Uncle John Scruggs was a newsreel film performance of this song.
Flatt, a traditionalist, did not like these changes, and the group broke up in 1969. [2] Following the breakup, Lester Flatt founded the Nashville Grass and Scruggs led the Earl Scruggs Revue. Flatt died of heart failure in Nashville, Tennessee, May 11, 1979 at the age of 64. [3] Scruggs died from natural causes on March 28, 2012 in a Nashville ...
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.
Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 – May 11, 1979) [1] was an American bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in the duo Flatt and Scruggs. Flatt's career spanned multiple decades, breaking out as a member of Bill Monroe's band during the 1940s and including multiple solo and ...
Foggy Mountain Jamboree is an album by Flatt & Scruggs, released by Columbia Records in 1957. It was re-issued on CD by Columbia Records and Legacy Records in 2005. It was a 2012 inductee to the Grammy Hall of Fame .
It was part of Louise Scruggs' plan to give the group a facelift by adding older folk songs to their repertoire. [2] AllMusic gave the album a rating of three stars. Critic Jim Smith wrote that Flatt and Scruggs "cool[ed] their famous 'overdrive' to turn in a collection of relaxed, almost dreamy adaptations of Carter tunes." [3]
"Down the Road" (Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs) – 0:27 "Mountain Pass" – 2:45 "Sutter's Mill" – 6:32 "Wolf Creek" – 2:52 "High Country Snows" – 4:42 "The Outlaw" (Jay Bolotin) – 3:23 "Shallow Rivers" – 3:10 "Go Down Easy" (Bolotin) – 3:52 "Wandering Shepherd" – 3:19 "Think of What You've Done" (Carter Stanley) – 2:35