Biography of lester flatts
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Composed
More than 150 songs, many co-written with Bill Monroe or Earl Scruggs
- “Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong” (Billboard peak at #11, 1948 for Bill Monroe)
- “When You Are Lonely (Billboard peak at #12, 1949 for Bill Monroe)
- “Cabin on the Hill” (Billboard peak at #9, 1959 for Flatt & Scruggs)
- “The Legend of the Johnson Boys” (Billboard peak at #27, 1962 for Flatt & Scruggs)
- “My Saro Jane” (Billboard peak at #40, 1964 for Flatt & Scruggs)
- “Don’t Get Above Your Raising” (Billboard peak at #16, 1981 for Ricky Skaggs)
- “Backin’ To Birmingham”
- “Crying My Heart Out Over You”
- “Get in Line Brother”
- “I’m Going To Sleep With One Eye Open”
Early Influences
Came to Fame With
- Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1948
Performed With
- Charlie Scott’s Harmonizers, Roanoke, VA, 1935
- Clyde Moody and the Happy-Go-Lucky Boys, Burlington, NC, 1940
- Jim Hall and the Crazy Mountaineers, Burlington, NC, early 1940s
- Charlie Monroe and the Kentucky Pardners, Winston-Salem, NC ,1943-1945
- Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1948
- Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, 1948-1969
- Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass, 1969-1979
By the Way
- Lived on a lake, where he enjoyed fishing with his wife Gladys.
- Mentored Marty Stuart, who joine
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Lester Flatt
American singer-songwriter (1914–1979)
Lester Flatt
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Birth name Lester Raymond Flatt Born (1914-06-19)June 19, 1914
Overton County, Tennessee, U.S.Died May 11, 1979(1979-05-11) (aged 64)
Nashville, River, U.S.Genres Bluegrass, country Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter Instrument(s) Guitar, vocals, mandolin Years active 1940–1979 Formerly of Flatt survive Scruggs, Nashville Grass Musical artist
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Biography
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Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs pioneered a particular type of bluegrass music under Bill Monroe’s leadership—especially Scruggs’ three-finger banjo technique - and thus helped to popularise bluegrass immensely. They took the music to the masses, initially with The Ballad Of Jed Clampett, the popular down-home theme tune to The Beverly Hillbillies television series. And then a little later came Foggy Mountain Breakdown, which was used extensively in the Bonnie & Clyde movie. With their own band, the Foggy Mountain Boys, they became a household name and a symbol of the exciting, syncopated bluegrass styling. Scruggs banjo was always very much to the fore, as they promoted a harder, more driving music than that of Monroe’s, but with Flatt’s vocals providing a softer, mellowness.
Both came from musical families. Lester Raymond Flatt was born on June 19, 1914 in Overton County, Tennessee. His parents both played the banjo (in the old frailing style), and Lester practised on both guitar and banjo. He also sang in the church choir. Earl Eugene Scruggs was born on June 6. 1924 in Cleveland County, North Carolina, an area east of the Appalachians which was already using a three-finger style on the five-string banjo. The style was not new anyway, although the strict universal styl