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15 Jul 02 - 07:59 PM (#748556) Subject: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo From: Steve Latimer 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? |
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15 Jul 02 - 08:50 PM (#748577) Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo From: Mark Clark 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 This is just off the top of my head and I haven't verified spellings. - Mark |
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15 Jul 02 - 11:14 PM (#748626) Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo From: Steve Latimer 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? |
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16 Jul 02 - 12:03 AM (#748649) Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo From: X 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. |
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16 Jul 02 - 12:05 AM (#748650) Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo From: masato sakurai 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 |
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16 Jul 02 - 02:26 AM (#748716) Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo From: Mark Clark 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 |
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16 Jul 02 - 09:39 AM (#748840) Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo From: Steve Latimer Thanks to all. It sure is one heck of a CD. Steve |
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16 Jul 02 - 10:10 AM (#748858) Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo From: GUEST,Russ Still have the vinyl. Great LP. To get the full Flatt and Scruggs experience you needed to hear them in a high school gym. |
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16 Jul 02 - 11:08 AM (#748886) Subject: RE: Players, Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn Banjo From: Rick Fielding 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 |