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Lead too short|date=November 2009Refimprove|date=March 2010Infobox musical artist| name = Foggy Mountain Boys| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| origin =| genre = Bluegrass music|Bluegrass , Country music|Country | years_active = 1948–1970| label =| associated_acts =| website =| past_members = Lester Flatt Earl Scruggs The Foggy Mountain Boys were an influential bluegrass music|bluegrass band founded by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs in 1948, shortly after leaving Bill Monroe ’s band. They recorded and performed together up until 1969.
Biography
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs met as members of Bill Monroe 's band, the Blue Grass Boys , in 1946. The two left that band early in 1948, and within a few months had formed their own group, the Foggy Mountain Boys. Scruggs' banjo style and Flatt's rhythm guitar style as well as his vocals, gave them a distinctive sound that won them many fans. In 1955, they became members of the Grand Ole Opry . Many of the songs on their albums are credited to "Certain and Stacey". These songs were in fact written by Flatt, Scruggs, and various other members of the Foggy Mountain Boys. Certain and Stacey are the maiden names of the wives of Flatt and Scruggs (Louise Certain, wife of Earl Scruggs, and Gladys Stacey, wife of Lester Flatt).
Scruggs, who had always shown progressive bluegrass|progressive tendencies, experimented on duets with saxophonist King Curtis and added songs by the likes of Bob Dylan to the group's repertoire. Flatt, a traditional bluegrass|traditionalist , did not like these changes, and the group broke up in 1969. Following the breakup, Lester Flatt founded the Nashville Grass and Scruggs led the Earl Scruggs Revue. Flatt died in 1979, at the age of 64. Flatt and Scruggs were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985.
In 2003, they ranked #24 on CMT 's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music , one of only four non-solo artists to make the list (The Eagles (band)|Eagles , Alabama (band)|Alabama , and Brooks & Dunn are the others).
In the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? , the band formed by the heroes is called the "Soggy Bottom Boys" as a tribute to the band.
Scruggs died from natural causes on March 28, 2012, in a Nashville hospital.cite news |agency= Associated Press |work= The Birmingham News |title=Bluegrass, banjo legend Earl Scruggs dies at 88 |url= http://blog.al.com/wire/2012/03/bluegrass_banjo_legend_earl_sc.html |date=March 28, 2012 |accessdate=March 29, 2012cite news |last=Wilson |first=David |title=Earl Scruggs, Banjoist Who Invented 'Scruggs Style,' Dies at 88 |url= http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-28/earl-scruggs-banjoist-who-invented-scruggs-style-dies-at-88 |work= Bloomberg Businessweek |date=March 28, 2012 |accessdate=March 29, 2012
Hylo Brown|Frank "Hylo" Brown ( upright bass|bass , guitar )
Charles “Little Darlin’” Elza ( upright bass|bass )
Joe Stuart ( upright bass|bass )
Ernie Newton (bass)
Bob Moore ( upright bass|bass )
Everette Lilly ( mandolin )
Jim Eanes ( guitar )
Mac Wiseman ( guitar )
Billy E. Powers ( guitar )
Johnny Johnson ( guitar )
Earl Taylor ( mandolin and harmonica )
Notable songs
" Foggy Mountain Breakdown " - an instrumental originally released in 1949 and used in many rural car chase film|movie sequences, notably in Bonnie and Clyde (film)|Bonnie and Clyde . It has won two Grammy awards . Parts of the song can be heard in the '' Monty Python's Flying Circus "Killer Sheep" sketch in the episode entitled "The Attila The Hun Show."
" The Ballad of Jed Clampett " ( Media:Ballad of Jed Clampett.ogg|listen ) - used as the theme for the Beverly Hillbillies television series . The song reached #42 on the record charts during the series' debut season of 1962. It was #1 on the country charts in January 1963, their only one of their career, and one of only two TV theme songs to ever do that on the country charts ( Waylon Jennings ' "The Good Ol' Boys" theme from The Dukes of Hazzard in the late 1970s was the other.).
Martha White jingle (still used in advertising today).
Rosenburg, Neil V. (1998). "Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music . Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp.& nbsp;173–4.
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