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Earl Scruggs in 2005 "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.
Their backing band, the Foggy Mountain Boys, included fiddle player Paul Warren, a master player in both the old-time and bluegrass fiddling styles whose technique reflected all qualitative aspects of "the bluegrass breakdown" and fast bowing style; dobro player Uncle Josh Graves, an innovator of the advanced playing style of the instrument now ...
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 1968, Earl Scruggs's band, Flatt and Scruggs, toured Japan and Watanabe described seeing the band saying "I thought I was a pretty good player at age 18. But ... when I saw Earl. His fingers changed my life." [2] In the 1972 film Bluegrass Country Soul, Watanabe is documented playing Foggy Mountain Breakdown alongside Scruggs, his role model ...
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 ...
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.
Their inspiration for going into the banjo business was Earl Scruggs' creation of homemade cam tuners, which he developed after recording "Earl's Breakdown" in 1951. Scruggs had sought to refine the way he played this song by finding a way to re-tune more accurately during the piece.
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".