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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 ...
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 Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall: 7 134 Columbia 1964 Recorded Live at Vanderbilt University: 10 The Fabulous Sound of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs ...
Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 – May 11, 1979) [1] was an American bluegrass guitarist, best known for his collaboration with banjo player Earl Scruggs in the band Flatt and Scruggs. Lester's career spanned multiple decades, breaking out as a member of Bill Monroe 's band during the 1940s and including multiple solo and collaboration ...
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 .
In 1948, Jody Rainwater left North Carolina for Roanoke, Virginia where he joined the Blue Star Boys. Later that year he learned that Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and others were leaving the Blue Grass Boys to form the Foggy Mountain Boys. Jody was asked to join them to handle bookings and advertising, but he decided to stay in Roanoke.
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 ...
Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall! is a live album by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs. It was recorded on December 8, 1962, at the first bluegrass concert ever performed at Carnegie Hall. [ 2 ] It was released in 1963 by Columbia Records (catalog number CL 2045).
In 1948, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs formed the duo Flatt and Scruggs and chose the name "the Foggy Mountain Boys" for their backing band. The name came from a song by the Carter Family called "Foggy Mountain Top" that the band used as a theme song at the time.