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Biography
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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
Members
Lester Flatt ( guitar )
Earl Scruggs ( banjo , guitar )
Paul Warren ( fiddle )
Curly Seckler|John Ray "Curly" Seckler ( mandolin ), guitar )
Josh Graves ( Dobro , upright bass|bass )
English P. “Cousin Jake” Tullock ( upright bass|bass )
Chubby Wise ( fiddle )
Jim Shumate ( fiddle )
Benny Martin ( fiddle )
Benny_sims|Benny Sims ( fiddle )
Howdy Forrester ( fiddle )
Art Wooten ( fiddle )
Howard Watts aka "Cedric Rainwater" ( upright bass|bass )
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).
''Changin' Times featuring Foggy Mountain Breakdown
7
Songs of Cherish
Original Theme From Bonnie & Clyde
26
The Story of Bonnie & Clyde
23
187
Nashville Airplane
35
1970
Final Fling
45
Breaking Out
35
Singles
Year
Single
Peak chart positions
Album
US Country
US
CAN Country
CAN
1949
" Foggy Mountain Breakdown "
9
singles only
1952
"'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered"
9
1959
"Cabin in the Hills"
9
1960
"Crying My Heart Out Over You"
21
1961
"Polka on a Banjo"
12
"Go Home"
10
1962
"Just Ain't"
16
"The Legend of the Johnson Boys"
27
Folk Songs of Our Land
" The Ballad of Jed Clampett "
1
44
''Hard Travelin' (The Ballad of Jed Clampett)
1963
"Pearl Pearl Pearl"
8
113
singles only
"New York Town"
26
1964
"You Are My Flower"
12
Recorded Live at Vanderbilt University
"My Sara Jane"
40
singles only
"Petticoat Junction"
14
"Workin' It Out"
21
1965
" I Still Miss Someone "
43
The Versatile Flatt & Scruggs
1967
"Nashville Cats"
54
singles only
"California Up Tight Band"
20
1968
"Down in the Flood"
45
15
Changing Times featuring Foggy Mountain Breakdown
" Foggy Mountain Breakdown "
58
55
90
"Like a Rolling Stone"
58
125
Nashville Airplane
References
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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