Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo

Subject: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 07:59 PM

I just got the Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mountain Banjo CD. This is a beauty. The liner notes don't say who is playing on it. I was very impressed with the other musicians, especially the fiddle player. Does anybody know who played on this other than Lester & Earl?

Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo
From: Mark Clark
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 08:50 PM

My copy of this venerable recording is circa 1960. Of course it's not a CD. If memory serves, the personnel were:

Lester Flatt, guitar
Earl Scruggs, banjo
Josh (Buck) Graves, Dobro
Paul Warren, fiddle
Curly Sechler, mandolin
Hi-Lo Brown, bass

This is just off the top of my head and I haven't verified spellings.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 11:14 PM

Mark,

Thank you. I figured it was Josh Graves on Dobro, but I wasn't sure about the rest. Can anyone confirm Mark's line-up?

Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo
From: X
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 12:03 AM

Let's see;

also,

Mandolin, Everette Lilly

Bass, English Tullock

Bass, Howard Watts

Fiddle, Jim Shumate

I don't think there's any mandolin on the Foggy Mt. Banjo album.

Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo
From: masato sakurai
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 12:05 AM

Recorded August 11 & September 9, 1960, Nashville. Personnel (except for "Ground Speed") is:

Lester Flatt: guitar; Earl Scruggs: banjo/leader; Burkett H. 'Buck' Graves: dobro; English P. 'Jake' Tullock, Jr: string bass; Paul Warren: fiddle; Murray M. 'Buddy' Harman, Jr: drums.

The info is from discography to Flatt & Scruggs 1959-1963 (Bear Family).

~Masato

Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo
From: Mark Clark
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 02:26 AM

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

Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 09:39 AM

Thanks to all.

It sure is one heck of a CD.

Steve

Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 10:10 AM

Still have the vinyl. Great LP. To get the full Flatt and Scruggs experience you needed to hear them in a high school gym.

Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 11:08 AM

To me, simply the finest band ever during their heyday.

From the recordings, I'd say 1948-1958 were the prime years........man I LOVE that music!

Rick