#Flatt and Scruggs

[rolloroberson]

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms

[lastyears-man]

Leonard Cohen & his group playing Regina by Lester Flatt on French television, 1970.

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: The Infamous Stringdusters - “Down the Road”

Perfect harmonies and flawless playing help establish the Infamous Stringdusters’ reverence for Flatt & Scruggs on the former’s remake of the latter’s “Down the Road.”

The track was “a staple of the Flatt & Scruggs canon and one they recorded early in their career,” Andy Hall said in a statement. “It has what we like to refer to in the bluegrass world as ‘drive.’ Not too fast, but powerful.”

Indeed. And the ’Dusters bolster that drive as each player - Hall on Dobro, guitarist Andy Falco, banjoist Chris Pandolfi, fiddler Jeremy Garrett and bassist Travis Book - gets in his licks after they announce the song with:

Down the down/down the road/got a little pretty gal down the road

The track follows “I’d Rather be Alone” ahead of the A Tribute to Flatt & Scruggs, the six-track EP arriving April 21.

Grade card: The Infamous Stringdusters - “Down the Road” - A

3/15/23

[listening-through-the-lens]

Infamous Flatt and Scruggs Tribute

[affiches-concerts]

Flatt & Scruggs, 1954.

[thatbanjobusiness]

One of the funniest ways to start a war would be to go to bluegrassers and tell them harmonica is the forgotten bluegrass instrument

[cosmogyros]

I'm an invalid and I was already productive today (went to the gynecologist and was informed that all my lady parts are in flawless condition) so now I'm doing absolutely nothing except lying on the sofa listening to vintage bluegrass all evening

[rastronomicals]

5:59 PM EST November 19, 2024:

Flatt & Scruggs - "Bummin' An Old Freight Train" From the album   The Fabulous Sound of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (1964)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[radiophd]

lester flatt & earl scruggs with the foggy mountain boys -- baby blue eyes

[muirneach]

im always like ugh why dont i have friends as if i don’t sit in the corner of the classroom alone watching flatt and scruggs videos

[ourmindonmusicpodcast]

Earl Scruggs: A Banjo Innovator

Earl Scruggs: A Banjo Innovator #EarlScruggs #banjo #bluegrass #fingerpicking

Earl Scruggs was an American bluegrass musician and banjo player who is widely regarded as one of the greatest banjo players of all time. Born on January 6, 1924, in Flint Hill, North Carolina, Scruggs developed a unique three-finger picking style that revolutionized banjo playing and became known as “Scruggs-style” picking. Early Career: Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass BoysEarl Eugene Scruggs grew up…

[dijidweeeb]

"Tunes from Grandpa's garage"

Motivational Music in the Morning... #LesterFlatt & #EarlScruggs #DrinkThatMashAndTalkThatTrash ... #MarthaWhiteFlour (1971) #MMittM

"Tunes from Grandpa's garage"

Motivational Music in the Morning... #LesterFlatt & #EarlScruggs #DrinkThatMashAndTalkThatTrash ... #MarthaWhiteFlour (1971) #MMittM

[krispyweiss]

Album Review: The Infamous Stringdusters - A Tribute to Flatt & Scruggs

Though it’s an impossibility in the real world, the progressive and regressive team up for beautiful music on the Infamous Stringdusters’ A Tribute to Flatt & Scruggs.

Over six songs spread across 20 minutes, Andy Hall (Dobro), Andy Falco (guitar), Chris Pandolfi (banjo), Jeremy Garrett (fiddle) and Travis Book (bass) square dance and two step Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs out of the 20th century and into the 21st.

The instrumentation and recording technology may be different, but the feeling is, if not the same, familiar and comfortable. And with that, the Dusters accomplished the difficult task of creating a paean that’s got the goods to make new fans for both the honor-bestowing and honorees while not offending existing denizens of either camp.

It’s sweet. It’s just too bad A Tribute to Flatt & Scruggs is so short.

Grade card: The Infamous Stringdusters - A Tribute to Flatt & Scruggs - A-

4/26/23

[saucy-mesothelioma]

@the-paradises oh god this is what you were talking about wasn't it

[affiches-concerts]

Flatt & Scruggs, Watertown, TN, 1953.

[thatbanjobusiness]

This is the moment where I pretend I don't have a problem.