Album
Foggy Mountain Banjo
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs And The Foggy Mountain Boys
1961 · Folk, World, & Country
4 collectors on Gatefold own this
Foggy Mountain Banjo is a Country album by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs And The Foggy Mountain Boys, originally released in 1961. On Gatefold: 30 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.
About
By the time Flatt & Scruggs released <i>Foggy Mountain Banjo</i> in 1961, the band had already been at it for over a decade, shepherding hillbilly music—or bluegrass, as it had come to be called—into something like the mainstream, guesting regularly on nationally syndicated media and joining folk festivals aimed at audiences looking to recover something “real.” Decades later, the music here retains an intensity more germane to punk than anything else, driven by thumping bass, searing fiddle, and the breathless picking of banjo player Earl Scruggs, who seems to have been given more fingers than most. Down-home as they were, there are times—“Cumberland Gap,” “Lonesome Road Blues,” “Bugle Call Rag”—when the band appears to wheel up and leave the ground.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Ground Speed
- A2Home Sweet Home
- A3Sally Ann
- A4Little Darlin', Pal Of Mine
- A5Reuben
- A6Cripple Creek
Side B
- B1Lonesome Road Blues
- B2John Henry
- B3Fire Ball Mail
- B4Sally Goodwin
- B5Bugle Call Rag
- B6Cumberland Gap
Sound DNA
- Country
- Bluegrass
- twangy
- playful
- pastoral
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Earl ScruggsBANJO
- Lester FlattGUITAR
- Benny MartinFIDDLE
- Billy PowersGUITAR
- Curly SecklerMANDOLIN
- Everett LillyMANDOLIN
- Howdy ForresterFIDDLE
- Jake TullockBASS
- Jody RainwaterBASS
- Paul WarrenFIDDLE
4 collectors on Gatefold own this · 30 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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