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Flatt & Scruggs

1992 - Flatt & Scruggs - 1959-1963

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Flatt & Scruggs


Flatt & Scruggs circa 1947

Wikipedia:

Lester Flatt:

Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 – May 11, 1979) was a bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in The Foggy Mountain Boys (popularly known as "Flatt and Scruggs").
Flatt's career spanned multiple decades, breaking out as a member of Bill Monroe's band during the 1940s and including multiple solo and collaboration works exclusive of Scruggs. He first reached a mainstream audience through his performance on "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", the theme for the network television hit The Beverly Hillbillies, in the early 1960s.

Earl Scruggs:

Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a three-finger banjo-picking style (now called "Scruggs style") that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music.
Although other musicians had played in three-finger style before him, Scruggs shot to prominence when he was hired by Bill Monroe to fill the banjo slot in his group, The Blue Grass Boys. He later reached a mainstream audience through his performance of "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", the theme for the network television hit The Beverly Hillbillies, in the early 1960s.

Foggy Mountain Boys:

The Foggy Mountain Boys was an American bluegrass band. The band was founded by guitarist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs and is viewed by music historians as one of the premier bluegrass groups in the history of the genre. The band was originally formed in 1948 by Flatt, who had been a member of Bill Monroe's bluegrass band. Flatt brought Scruggs with him shortly after leaving Monroe.
Flatt and Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys (in various forms and line-ups) recorded and performed together up until 1969. The Foggy Mountain Boys are seen as one of the landmark bands in bluegrass music. Although it featured various casts, during the years of The Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Grand Ole Opry Show, notably sponsored by grain and flour producer Martha White, the band showcased fiddle player Paul Warren, a master player in both the Old-Time and Bluegrass fiddling styles, whose technique reflected all qualitative aspects of 'the bluegrass breakdown' and fast bowing style; dobro player Uncle Josh Graves, an innovator of the advanced playing style of the instrument now used in the genre, stand-up bass player Cousin Jake Tullock, and mandolinist Curly Seckler. Scruggs is widely considered the most influential player of the bluegrass banjo who ever lived. Playing since the age of four, Scruggs gained his initial spotlight when he played briefly with Bill Monroe, considered by many as the father of bluegrass music. His lightning-fast syncopation and virtuosity wove themselves into an innovative three finger picking style that became the standard for mastering the instrument.


Flatt & Scruggs - 1959-1963 (5CD Box Set)



Artist: Flatt & Scruggs
Title Of Album: Flatt & Scruggs - 1959-1963
Format: 5 × CD, Compilation, Box Set
Producer: Neely Plumb, Don Law, Frank Jones,
Reissue Producer: Richard Weize
Release Date: August 18, 1992
Label: Bear Family Records
Catalog: BCD 15559 EI
ASIN: B00000AT9X
Genre: Country, Folk, Traditional Bluegrass
Duration: 5:33:55

bear-family.com:
These were Earl Scuggs and Lester Flatt's prime years. They rode the crest of the folk boom, supplied the theme for 'The Beverly Hillbillies', and played Carnegie Hall. Through it all, their music remained remarkably pure and honest. The core of this set is six albums, all incredibly rare now: Songs Of Glory, Folk Songs Of Our Land, Foggy Mountain Banjo, Songs Of The Carter Family, Hard Travelin', Carnegie Hall and Gordon Terry's Square Dance Party. Fans who have treasured the 'Carnegie Hall' album will be amazed by the 19 unissued songs we've uncovered from that date. There are also singles not reissued until now and previously unissued recordings.

AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek:
While the first Flatt & Scruggs box on Bear Family documented the band's development over its first 11 years -- 1948-1959 -- this set captures the band at the height of its meteoric rise to fame into the stuff of legend. First and foremost, Flatt & Scruggs eclipsed the fame of their mentor, Bill Monroe by having six charting singles in Billboard between the mid-'50s and 1960. They also got reviewed in Playboy and Downbeat magazines and began to play the Newport Folk Festival and appear on stages with Joan Baez, Cisco Houston, the Kingston Trio, New Christy Minstrels, Woody Guthrie, John Jacob Niles, and many others. Things began to heat up for Flatt & Scruggs in 1963, when they debuted the "Theme of Jed Clampett" for the new television comedy series The Beverly Hillbillies. This box contains six complete LPs recorded during those years, the complete edition of their concert at Carnegie Hall, and an album of square dancing fiddle tunes for which guitarist Merle Travis and fiddler Gordon Terry were added to the band. Over five CDs and 139 selections, the Flatt & Scruggs trek to superstardom is well documented. Their names became household for appearances on everything from the Ed Sullivan show to The Price Is Right. But most importantly, what Flatt & Scruggs accomplished during this period was extraordinary: They not only brought the American public at large to traditional country and bluegrass music from the Southern mountains; they also pushed the envelope on the bluegrass to places it literally would never have gone. Take a listen to their version of Doc Watson's "I'm Troubled" from 1963, recorded just four days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the use of Buddy Harman's drums on Guthrie's "Hard Travelin" and "This Land Is Your Land," or Maybelle Carter's lead guitar on an entire program of Carter Family classics recorded in 1961. This is the sound of history in the making, of mountain music coming down from the mountain as the rest of the country opens to it in all of its raw, heartfelt glory. This is breathtaking material and is the most mainstream of the three sets devoted to Flatt & Scruggs -- there is one devoted to Lester's music after the band's demise -- and it is the most exciting.




CD1:

01. I'm On My Way To Canaan's Land - 2:23
02. Angle Band - 2:34
03. When The Angels Carry Me Home - 2:18
04. I'll Never Be Lonesome Again - 2:23
05. Get On The Road To Glory - 2:15
06. Take Me In Your Lifeboat - 2:39
07. Bubbling In My Soul - 2:22
08. Heaven - 2:38
09. Joy Bells - 2:25
10. Give Me Flowers While I'm Living - 2:34
11. You Can Feel It In Your Soul - 2:29
12. Give Mother My Crown - 2:54
13. The Great Historical Bum - 2:11
14. I've Lost You Forever - 2:25
15. Polka On A Banjo - 2:42
16. All I Want Is You - 2:14
17. Shuckin' The Corn (Instrumental) - 2:10
18. Home Sweet Home (Instrumental) - 2:14
19. Fire Ball Mail (Instrumental) - 1:53
20. Cripple Creek (Instrumental) - 2:08
21. Reuben (Instrumental) - 2:02
22. John Henry (Instrumental) - 2:07
23. Cumberland Gap (Instrumental) - 1:58
24. Lonesome Road Blues (Instrumental) - 2:02
25. Sally Goodwin (Instrumental) - 2:11
26. Little Darlin', Pal Of Mine (Instrumental) - 1:56
27. Sally Ann (Instrumental) - 2:11
28. Bugle Call Rag (Instrumental) - 2:26

CD2:

01. I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow - 2:06
02. If I Should Wander Back Tonight - 2:10
03. Cold, Cold Loving - 2:29
04. Welcome To The Club - 2:26
05. False Hearted Lover (Instrumental) - 2:23
06. Pickin' In The Wildwood - 2:19
07. The Homestead On The Farm - 2:11
08. Foggy Mountain Top - 2:27
09. You Are My Flower - 2:30
10. Forsaken Love - 2:27
11. The Storms Are On The Ocean - 2:46
12. Gathering Flowers From The Hillside (Instrumental) - 2:13
13. Worried Man Blues - 2:02
14. On The Rock Where Moses Stood - 2:26
15. Keep On The Sunny Side - 3:02
16. Jimmie Brown, The Newsboy - 2:45
17. Just Ain't - 2:15
18. Where Will I Shelter My Sheep - 2:21
19. I Saw Mother With God Last Night - 2:42
20. Go Home - 3:14
21. Handsome Molly - 2:04
22. Coal Loadin' Johnny - 2:51
23. Hear That Whistle Blow (A Hundred Miles) - 3:33
24. Too Old For A Broken Heart - 2:27

CD3:

01. The Legend Of The Johnson Boys - 2:15
02. All The Good Times Are Past And Gone - 2:34
03. George Alley's F.F.V. - 3:45
04. This Land Is Your Land - 2:28
05. Philadelphia Lawyer - 2:46
06. Sun's Gonna Shine In My Back Door Some Day - 2:19
07. Hear The Wind Blow - 3:08
08. I'll Be No Man's Wife - 2:38
09. McKinley's Gone - 2:34
10. Nine Pound Hammer - 2:25
11. Ellen Smith - 2:29
12. Life Of Trouble - 2:43
13. The Ballad Of Jed Clampett - 1:31
14. Hard Travelin' - 2:44
15. The Wreck Of The Old 97 - 2:32
16. Ninety-nine Years Is Almost For Life - 3:27
17. Over The Hills To The Poorhouse - 2:49
18. New York Town - 2:42
19. Dixie Home - 2:28
20. Pastures Of Plenty - 2:40
21. Bound To Ride - 2:09
22. When I Left East Virginia - 3:50
23. Drowned In The Deep Blue Sea - 2:23
24. My Native Home - 2:16
25. Coal Miner's Blues - 2:33

CD4:

01. Pearl Pearl Pearl - 2:09
02. What About You - 2:34
03. Rambling Gambler - 3:03
04. Mama Don't Allow - 2:28
05. I'm Troubled - 2:15
06. My Saro Jane - 2:46
07. The Train That Carried My Girl From Town - 2:24
08. Little Birdie - 2:38
09. You Are My Flower - 3:02
10. Po' Rebel Soldier - 2:07
11. Old Joe Clark - 4:02
12. Sally Goodin - 3:47
13. Black Mountain Rag - 3:56
14. Billy In The Lowground - 3:56
15. Twinkle Little Star - 4:02
16. Old Fiddler - 4:05
17. Soldier's Joy - 4:09
18. Georgia Shuffle - 5:01
19. Golden Slippers - 4:37
20. Tennessee Wagner - 4:00

CD5:

01. Salty Dog Blues - 1:56
02. Durham's Reel - 1:16
03. Down The Road - 2:07
04. Rainbow - 1:12
05. Big Ball In Brooklyn - 1:58
06. Flint Hill Special - 2:16
07. Dig A Hole In The Meadow - 2:58
08. I Hung My Head And Cried - 2:40
09. Hot Corn, Cold Corn - 2:43
10. Little Darlin' Pal Of Mine - 1:37
11. You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming - 1:17
12. Footprints In The Snow - 3:10
13. The Martha White Theme - 1:07
14. I Wonder Where You Are Tonight - 3:49
15. Old McDonald Had A Farm - 2:27
16. He Will Set Your Fields On Fire - 2:48
17. Let The Church Roll On - 2:31
18. Wildwood Flower - 2:02
19. Hear That Whistle Blow (A Hundred Miles) - 3:02
20. Fiddle And Banjo - 1:33
21. Old Leather Britches - 2:41
22. Ballad Of Jed Clampett - 2:08
23. Yonder Stands Little Maggie - 2:12
24. Reuben - 2:00
25. Mama Blues - 1:47
26. I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome - 2:17
27. Foggy Mountain Rock - 2:18
28. Take This Hammer - 2:44
29. McKinley's Gone - 3:05
30. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms - 1:19
31. Gotta Travel On - 3:27
32. Mountain Dew - 2:26


Personnel:

William Paul Ackerman - Drums
M.C. Berry - Drums
Mother Maybelle Carter - Autoharp, Guitar
Flatt & Scruggs - Primary Artist
Lester Flatt - Guitar, Leader, Vocals
Buck Graves - Baritone (Vocal), Bass, Dobro, Guest Artist, Vocals
John W. Greubel - Drums
William K. "Kenny" Haddock - Dobro
Buddy Harman - Drums
Culley Holt - Bass (Vocal), Guitar
Douglas Kirkham - Drums
Billy Liebert - Guest Artist
William Edward "Billy" Liebert - Piano
Billy E. Powers - Guitar, Tenor (Vocal), Vocals
Earl Scruggs - Banjo, Baritone (Vocal), Guitar, Leader, Vocals
Curly Seckler - Guitar, Handclapping, Mandolin, Tenor (Vocal)
Gordon Terry - Fiddle, Leader
Merle Travis - Guest Artist, Guitar, Vocals
English P. Jr. "Jake" Tullock - Baritone (Vocal), Bass, Guitar, Sound Effects, String Bass, Tenor (Vocal), Vocals
Paul Warren - Bass (Vocal), Composer, Fiddle, Handclapping
Joe Zinkan - Bass, String Bass


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