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Thread #49566   Message #748716
Posted By: Mark Clark
16-Jul-02 - 02:26 AM
Thread Name: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo
Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo
Accccording to this Paul Warren bio, Paul undoubtedly would have been the fiddler on "Foggy Mountain Banjo." Of course other could have dropped in just for the session but I don't think that would have been the band's style to do that.

Looking at the Earl Scruggs Website, I see that “Foggy Mountain Banjo” is still available as an LP! Maybe it's time to replace my 42-year old copy.

Running through the personnel list from the “Foggy Mountain Jamboree” album one gets an interesting time line of sidemen. You see Jody Rainwater on bass in 1952 (is that Cedric?) and Howard Watts (Cedric Rainwater) in 1957. I guess the comic sideman had gone out of style. Jake Tullock shows up but not consistently. The album cover shows Curly Seckler in the middle but doesn't say when the photo wat taken. Judging from the costumes, I'm guessing it was a current photo at the time the album was released. John Hartford's new liner notes speak of Hylo Brown but again they don't pin down a date. Here is all I've turned up in the way of a bio for Hylo Brown.

      - Mark