Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs News

By pure coincidence, the Cincinnati USA Music Heritage Foundation is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the recording of legendary Bluegrass track "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs in Cincinnati's Herzog recording studio on the same evening as Earl's grandson - former BR549 member and successful Indie/AltCountry ...

The Songcatchers developed out of the Traditional Appalachian music program headed by Dr.

"Why would you do a thing like that?" Bla Fleck and the Flecktones When: 8 p.m. Wednesday Where: The Classic Center, 300 N. Thomas St.

Before Nashville's Music Row became the center of the country music universe, a recording studio in downtown Cincinnati with an unromantic name was producing some of the most influential country, bluegrass and R&B songs in recording history.

Historical marker honors recording studio with vital ties to Hank Williams and popular music's very evolution By Rick Bird Well, I'm in love, I'm in love, with a beautiful gal But she don't care about me Lawd, I tried and I tried, to keep her satisfied But she just wouldn't stay So now that she is lea-eav-in' This is all I can say... I got the ...

One of the world's least-known guitar makers approached one of the world's best-known guitar players.

Bluegrass pickers have been making music at the Cassia Community Center for almost two decades.

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.

When local DJ and emcee Harold Mitchell was bedridden with rheumatic fever at six years old, the radio kept him company as he listened to the legends on the Grand Ole Opry.

Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley has written his memoirs that include stories about performers Bill Monroe, George Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Porter Wagoner, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

" The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, a band started in Mingo County over 40 years ago, was inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame Oct.

Earl Scruggs formed The Foggy Mountain Boys with Lester Flatt in 1948. Enrico Fuente via Flickr David Johnston plays banjo in the Yonder Mountain String Band.

Brad Wheeler Last updated on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 03:18PM EDT C hris Quinn, banjo player for the Toronto-based string band the Foggy Hogtown Boys, picks his three essential banjo-plucking bluegrass albums: Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall Quinn, like Steve Martin, was heavily influenced by the pioneering banjo player's banjo player.

They are the two-by-fours that make up country music's earliest construction, rootsy legends whose very names conjure never-faded invention and old-timey amusements.

Announcement : New Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Blog Online! BMNN wrote: on May 23, 2009: Tom Thomas announced on the bluegrass list about his great new bluegrass web site -- The Flatt & Scruggs Blog Site .