Before The Ballad of Jed Clampett, and long before their ascension to bluegrass royalty, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mountain Boys hosted Flatt & Scruggs Grand Ole Opry, a continuum of ...

One of the groups most synonymous with the advent of bluegrass as we know it today is Flatt & Scruggs. On Dec. 8, 1945, the pair made their debut on the Grand Ole Opry, the country music institution ...

One day in 1989 while cleaning out the garage at his Tyne Boulevard home in Nashville, Willis Graham uncovered the holy grail of country music: 24 episodes of the "Flatt & Scruggs Grand Ole Opry" ...

Fifty-five years ago today (March 11, 1969) was a sad day for Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs: It was on that date that the men, together known as the bluegrass duo Flatt and Scruggs, split up, ending a ...

Editor’s note: This is the 471st in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes. Music historians view the duo of singer and guitarist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs as one ...

Banjo player David Johnston was first turned on to bluegrass when he was in college. The music reminded him of a bygone era, and he especially... David Johnston, banjo player for the Yonder Mountain ...

DOUGLAS: Josh Graves was a dobro player with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. And he was really the first person to use a three-fingered roll - use all three figures to play ...

The country music world is mourning the loss of one of its greats. Legendary banjo player Earl Scruggs died of natural causes in a Nashville hospital Wednesday. He was 88 years old. Though Lester ...

The birth of banjo great Earl Scruggs — born 96 years ago on January 6th, 1924, in the Cleveland County community of Flint Hill, North Carolina — predated the debut of the Grand Ole Opry by less than ...