Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys Artist Profile

Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys

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Real name: The Foggy Mountain Boys, Flatts & Scruggs
Artist name(s): Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs
Label(s): CBS, Columbia, County, Gusto, Harmony, Legacy Records, Mercury, RCA Victor
Place of birth: Nashville, TN, US

Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys Biography

Like so many other bluegrass legends, Flatt & Scruggs were graduates of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. Because of the unique sound they added ("overdrive," one critic called it), Monroe felt let down after Flatt's quality vocals and Scruggs's banjo leads left in 1948. Quickly the two assembled a band that in the opinion of many was among the best ever, with Chubby Wise on fiddle and...