On this day (May 11) in 1979, Lester Flatt died of heart failure in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 64. Most remember him as half of Flatt & Scruggs, the foundational bluegrass duo. He and Earl ...

Lester Flatt’s Pickin’ Time is now at your fingertips. The Bluegrass great’s final album, recorded in 1978 alongside his acclaimed backing band The Nashville Grass, has been remastered and made ...

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 ...

Jerry Douglas, considered by many to be the best dobro player in the world, brings his instrument to the studio and talks about his new album, The Earls of Leceister, a tribute to Flatt and Scruggs.

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A Martin D-18 guitar that bluegrass icon Lester Flatt played numerous times on the Grand Ole Opry and with the Foggy Mountain Boys is up for auction from Heritage Auctions. The instrument was listed ...

The House of Representatives voted unanimously Tuesday to honor bluegrass legend Lester Flatt. Rep. Lincoln Davis (D-TN), who now represents the area Flatt was born in, says the music and the late ...

Despite early reports teasing something far more contentious, most sources paint the March 11, 1969, split of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs' Foggy Mountain Boys as a case of creative differences. And ...

Earl Scruggs, whose distinctive picking style and association with Lester Flatt cemented bluegrass music’s place in popular culture, died Wednesday of natural causes at a Nashville hospital, his son ...

NASHVILLE -- Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.

Jerry Douglas' new album, which he also produced, is a tribute to the influential bluegrass band the Foggy Mountain Boys, led by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. That's the band that got Douglas into ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.