Flatt and Scruggs were an American bluegrass duo. Singer and guitarist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs, both of whom had been members of Bill...
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Fellow band member Lester Flatt resigned as well, and he and Scruggs later paired up in the duo Flatt and Scruggs. Scruggs' banjo instrumental "Foggy...
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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...
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Foggy Mountain Breakdown (category Flatt and Scruggs songs)
Mercury Records credited to Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2002, Scruggs won a Grammy award for a 2001...
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The Ballad of Jed Clampett (category Flatt and Scruggs songs)
bluegrass musicians Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, with Jerry Scoggins singing. The single phono-album version, released for radio and retail sale, merges both...
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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...
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Mountain Boys and Flatt and Scruggs, and later performed and recorded with the Stanley Brothers, Hylo Brown, Jimmy Martin, Johnnie and Jack, and the Stonemans...
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1945. In 1955, Scruggs was the first woman manager in the music industry when she became the manager and booking agent of Flatt & Scruggs. As booking agent...
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including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt. Monroe characterized the genre as "Scottish bagpipes and ole-time fiddlin'. It's a part...
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by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Greg Scruggs (born 1990), American football player Irene Scruggs (1901–1981), American Piedmont blues and country blues...
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The Beverly Hillbillies (category Black-and-white American television shows)
by Flatt and Scruggs) over the opening and end credits of each episode. Flatt and Scruggs subsequently cut their own version of the theme (with Flatt singing)...
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Bill Monroe (redirect from Summertime Has Passed and Gone)
Opry audiences. Flatt and Scruggs joined a highly accomplished group that included fiddler Howdy Forrester and bassist Joe Forrester and would soon include...
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Columbia Pictures. Some of his songs were recorded by Flatt and Scruggs and Bobbie Gentry. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition recorded an entire album of Michael...
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Paul Warren (fiddler) (section Awards and honors)
singles, and his long tenure with Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. Warren was born in Lyles, Tennessee to a father who played guitar and banjo...
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The Fabulous Sound of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs is a studio album by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs. It was released in 1964 by Columbia Records...
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Kruger Brothers (section Music and Recordings)
inspired by recordings of Doc Watson, Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe, and other progenitors of country, bluegrass and folk music. Their first public performances...
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Hartford's 1971 album Aereo-Plain. In 1972, Scruggs released another album recorded with Gary: The Scruggs Brothers. Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide:...
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The Beverly Hillbillies in the role of Gladys Flatt, the glamorous wife of bluegrass musician Lester Flatt. Lansing has a star on the Hollywood Walk of...
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Crying My Heart Out Over You (category Flatt and Scruggs songs)
is a song written by Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Carl Butler, and Earl Sherry and was originally recorded by Flatt & Scruggs, which peaked at #21 on the...
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Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms (category Flatt and Scruggs songs)
development of bawdy British and Appalachian songs generally known as "Bang Bang Rosie" or "Bang Away Lulu." The Flatt & Scruggs version was first released...
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Jackson (song) (redirect from Jackson (Johnny Cash and June Carter song))
in 1963 by Billy Edd Wheeler and Jerry Leiber. It was recorded in 1963 by the Kingston Trio, Wheeler, and Flatt and Scruggs. It achieved its most notable...
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Nashville Airplane (redirect from Nashville Airplane (Flatt & Scruggs Album))
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs released in 1968 on the Columbia Limited Edition label. It was recorded shortly before their breakup in 1969. Lester Flatt resisted...
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Foggy Mountain Jamboree (category Flatt and Scruggs albums)
Scruggs) – 2:16 "Reunion in Heaven" (Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt) – 2:53 Lester Flatt – Guitar, vocals Earl Scruggs – Banjo, vocals Chet Atkins – Guest Artist...
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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...
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Songs of the Famous Carter Family (category Flatt and Scruggs albums)
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...
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Curly Seckler (section Later years and death)
Seckler, was an American bluegrass musician. He played with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs in their band, Foggy Mountain Boys, from 1949 to 1962, as well as...
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The Earls of Leicester (band) (redirect from Rattle and Roar)
assembled by Jerry Douglas in 2013 to present the music of Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and their band the Foggy Mountain Boys to a contemporary audience....
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Songs of Glory (category Flatt and Scruggs albums)
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)...
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Watson, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, released in 1967. Writing for Allmusic, music critic Thom Owen wrote the album "Flatt & Scruggs and Watson play with...
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Wiley and Zeke, through which he met Earl Scruggs, a previous bandmate of the brothers. Scruggs had recently formed a band with Lester Flatt, and when...
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