Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs News

One of the world's least-known guitar makers approached one of the world's best-known guitar players.

Bluegrass pickers have been making music at the Cassia Community Center for almost two decades.

Legacy Recordings, the world's foremost catalog music label, is continuing its on-going digital reissue initiative with a round of classic album titles, from a variety of genres, to be released for the first time in the online digital realm this fall.

When local DJ and emcee Harold Mitchell was bedridden with rheumatic fever at six years old, the radio kept him company as he listened to the legends on the Grand Ole Opry.

Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley has written his memoirs that include stories about performers Bill Monroe, George Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Porter Wagoner, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

" The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, a band started in Mingo County over 40 years ago, was inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame Oct.

Earl Scruggs formed The Foggy Mountain Boys with Lester Flatt in 1948. Enrico Fuente via Flickr David Johnston plays banjo in the Yonder Mountain String Band.

Brad Wheeler Last updated on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 03:18PM EDT C hris Quinn, banjo player for the Toronto-based string band the Foggy Hogtown Boys, picks his three essential banjo-plucking bluegrass albums: Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall Quinn, like Steve Martin, was heavily influenced by the pioneering banjo player's banjo player.

They are the two-by-fours that make up country music's earliest construction, rootsy legends whose very names conjure never-faded invention and old-timey amusements.

Announcement : New Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Blog Online! BMNN wrote: on May 23, 2009: Tom Thomas announced on the bluegrass list about his great new bluegrass web site -- The Flatt & Scruggs Blog Site .

Jim Shumate, a well-known fiddler who played with bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe, as well as Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, has been added to the lineup for the Bluegrass in Wilkes festival on Saturday.

News : Curly Seckler Joins Stepson Johnny Warren for CD Release Party BMNN wrote: on Apr.

Bluegrass music legend Curly Seckler along with regular Grand Ole Opry performers, the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band will headline the next Song of the Mountains concert in Marion, Virginia at the Lincoln Theatre on May 16th.

Because bluegrass hasn't been a genre that has received much mainstream attention, a lot of music enthusiasts might not recognize the name J.D. Crowe.