Flatt & Scruggs Classics MUSIC AUDIO CD 36 all-time favorites bluegrass country! Type: Music Platform: Audio CD Publisher: Sony Released: 2000 Media: CD Flatt & Scruggs ClassicsBiography of Flatt & Scruggs After Bill Monroe, the most influential bluegrass pickers have to be Flatt & Scruggs, who began playing together in 1945 as members of, guess who - Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. After three years with Monroe, guitarist Lester Flatt (b. 1914) and banjoist Earl Scruggs (b. 1924) formed.their own group, the Foggy Mountain Boys. They took with them two of Monroe's players, fiddler Jim Shumate and bass fiddler Howard Watts, who was also known as Cedric Rainwater. Mac Wiseman joined them as singer/guitarist. • A strictly Southern band, they were signed to play on a Virginia radio station and then joined Mercury Records prior to taking off on a major tour of the south. In 1950, the Boys switched to Columbia Records after releasing several folk songs on Mercury played in the new bluegrass mode, all the while gaining new fans with a stronger version of bluegrass music. This collection contains 36 favorites on 3 CDs!For CD Player
