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Flatt, a traditionalist, did not like these changes, and the group broke up in 1969. [2] 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 ...
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 .
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).
Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 – May 11, 1979) [1] was an American bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in the duo Flatt and Scruggs. Flatt's career spanned multiple decades, breaking out as a member of Bill Monroe's band during the 1940s and including multiple solo and ...
Critic Bruce Eder wrote: "[R]ecording a live album at Vanderbilt was Flatt & Scruggs' way of announcing that bluegrass had arrived academically, and then some. . . . The crowd is sympathetic, the acoustics are fine, and this record is worth tracking down." [3]
"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.
It’s always great and I think the audience loves to see us play. We honor the fathers — Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs and The Stanley Brothers. I always call them the Mount Rushmore of bluegrass.
Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music.