Flatt & Scruggs News

After 50 years on the music scene, you never know what this long-haired country boy might do next.

Melvin Goins is unabashedly old school when it comes to playing bluegrass music.

A New York City native , he picked up the banjo at age 15 after being awed by the bluegrass music of Flatt & Scruggs.

Country and bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs credits his father for nurturing his love of music.

Not really sure whether it's our alcohol mixture, some pharmacological imbalance our sex life or just male menopausal phenomena, but lately Lonesome, Onry and Mean has been on an evil bluegrass jag.

The East Hill Bluegrass Band will return to Chestnut Avenue Center for the Arts to debut its new CD, "The Best We Never Done." The perennial Chippewa Valley favorites, featuring former Marshfield resident Max Winkels, will appear for a 7:30 p.m. Nov.

This last October, Jim Shumate of Hickory turned 88. The accomplished fiddler, who played with Bill Monroe as well as Flatt and Scruggs, performed with the Bluegrass Festival in Wilkes County this past May.

Shadow Ridge will team up with Monroe Fields for a performance at the Alabama Pecan Fest.

In memory of Louise Scruggs, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will present an in-depth interview honoring visionary music industry executive Mary Martin on Tuesday, November 17, at 6 p. m. in the Ford Theater.

Legacy Recordings, the world's foremost catalog music label, is continuing its on-going digital reissue initiative with a round of classic album titles, from a variety of genres, to be released for the first time in the online digital realm this fall.

Steve Martin is less known for playing with Earl Scruggs on a 2001 remake of Flatt & Scruggs' “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” than he is for, say, “King Tut,” but that isn't a slight.

Saturday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m., Mildred Owen Concert Hall, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, in the building with the colorful mural.

Phoenix-based Tangled Strings Bluegrass Band will kick off the Rec Centers' free Concert in the Park Series at 7 p.m. Oct.

September 18, 2009 - BLOCK: Ricky Skaggs, do you remember a time when you were not holding a string instrument in your hands? Mr.

The music I have played and enjoyed the most in the past three years is, of all things, a three-CD collection from Time Life titled "The Stanley Brothers: The Definitive Collection ." It is fundamental American music: rural bluegrass with a tapestry of strings beneath vocals seemingly made whole cloth out of the dirt, water, and foliage of the ...

WestEndEnt wrote: on Sep. 06, 2009: Bluegrass clearly runs in the McReynolds family.

Photo: Brad Bartlett and his wife, Estella Moore, both from Durango, Colo., rehearse for their show Saturday at the Santa Fe County Fairgrounds, during the 35th annual Santa Fe Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Festival.

BMNN wrote: on Aug. 25, 2009: Brooklyn, NY -- Each September, Park Slope becomes the focal point of American traditional music when the Park Slope Bluegrass & Old-Time Jamboree, now in its 12th year, takes place.

BMNN wrote: on Aug. 25, 2009: Brooklyn, NY -- Each September, Park Slope becomes the focal point of American traditional music when the Park Slope Bluegrass & Old-Time Jamboree, now in its 12th year, takes place.

There's arguably no song more essential in the history of country music than Hank Williams' 'Lovesick Blues.' In bluegrass, the same can be said of Flatt and Scruggs' 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown.' Williams and Flatt and Scuggs cut those songs 12 months apart, in 1948 and 1949, respectively, at the same recording studio.