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Album Chart Positions Label US Country US; 1957 Foggy Mountain Jamboree: Columbia 1958 Country Music: Mercury 1959 Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs: 1960 Songs of Glory: Columbia 1961 Foggy Mountain Banjo: Songs of the Famous Carter Family: 1962 Folk Songs of Our Land: 1963 Hard Travelin' (The Ballad of Jed Clampett) 115 The Original Sound: Mercury
Songs of the Famous Carter Family is a studio album by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs featuring Mother Maybelle Carter and the Foggy Mountain Boys. It was released in 1961 by Columbia Records, catalog numbers CL 1664 (mono) and CS 8464 (stereo). [1] The album was released before Billboard magazine began maintaining its Top Country Albums ...
In 1948, he started a band with fellow Monroe alumnus Earl Scruggs, and for the next 20 years, Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys were one of the most successful bands in bluegrass. [4] When they parted ways in 1969, Flatt formed a new group, the Nashville Grass , hiring many of the Foggy Mountain Boys.
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 .
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" is a bluegrass instrumental, in the common "breakdown" format, written by Earl Scruggs and first recorded on December 11, 1949, by the bluegrass artists Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. [1] It is a standard in the bluegrass repertoire. The 1949 recording features Scruggs playing a five-string banjo.
Songs of Glory is a studio album by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys. It was released in 1960 by Columbia Records, catalog numbers CL 1424 (mono) and CS 8221 (stereo). [1] [2] The album was released before Billboard magazine began maintaining its Top Country Albums chart in 1964. It was part of Louise Scruggs ...
Four works by Scruggs have been placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" (single, inducted 1999); Foggy Mountain Jamboree, (album, inducted 2012); Foggy Mountain Banjo, (album, inducted 2013); and Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (single, inducted 1998) on which Scruggs performed. The award was established by The ...
In his early career he was the guitarist for Flatt and Scruggs' band, the Foggy Mountain Boys. His biggest hits included " The Ballad of Davy Crockett "(1955) and "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy"(1959). Wiseman was a recipient of a 2008 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts , which is the United States' highest ...