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"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.
Banjo, "standard roll patterns", on G major chord: Play forward ⓘ (above), Play backward ⓘ, Play mixed ⓘ, and Play forward-reverse ⓘ. [1] [3]Beginning with his first recordings with Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, and later with Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, Earl Scruggs introduced a vocabulary of "licks", short musical phrases that are reused in many ...
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A breakdown is an instrumental form that features a series of breaks, each played by a different instrument. Examples of the form are "Bluegrass Breakdown" by Bill Monroe as well as "Earl's Breakdown" and " Foggy Mountain Breakdown ", both of which were written by Earl Scruggs .
The cafe was modeled after similar cafes in New York City and was described as a "bluegrass paradise" with live bands, records on request, and a guitar and banjo hanging on the wall. It was there, in the spring of 1967, that Watanabe and his brother participated in forming the group Bluegrass 45 along with four other college students.
John McEuen – banjo, piano, accordion, tambourine; Jeff Hanna – rhythm guitar, washboard, harmonica, drums, lead vocals; Jimmie Fadden – drums, harmonica, washtub bass, jug, lead vocals on "Rock Me Baby" Les Thompson – bass; Chris Darrow – fiddle, mandolin, lead vocals on "Alligator Man" and "Goodnight, My Love, Pleasant Dreams"
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.
Paul Warren (May 17, 1918 –January 12, 1978) was an American fiddle player best known for his work on a number of Kitty Wells singles, and his long tenure with Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys.