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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 .
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 hospital. [4] [5] Flatt and Scruggs were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985.
"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.
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.
Flatt and Scruggs won a Grammy Award in 1968 for Scruggs's instrumental "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". [60] Scruggs won a second Grammy in 2001 for the same song featuring artists Steve Martin , Vince Gill , Albert Lee , Paul Shaffer , Leon Russell , Marty Stuart , Jerry Douglas , Glen Duncan and Scruggs's two oldest sons, Randy and Gary. [ 60 ]
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]
After Flatt and Scruggs, Curly took a break from the music business until 1973, when Lester Flatt asked him to be a part of his group, the Nashville Grass Band. Upon Lester Flatt's death in 1979, Seckler became the leader of the Nashville Grass band and continued playing with the band. Seckler held this position until his retirement in 1994 ...
He joined Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1954, after fifteen years with the Tennessee Mountain Boys. As a member of that band, he was often called upon in concert segments featuring traditional fiddle tunes, including a number of the Arthur Smith tunes which had been recorded by Flatt and Scruggs, such as "Pig in the Pen".