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 ...

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... Jerry Douglas' Tribute To Bluegrass Legends Lester ...

101 Salty Dog Blues / Flatt and Scruggs (Musical group), Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt. Guitar,Banjo 102 Durham's Reel / Flatt and Scruggs (Musical group), Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt. Guitar,Banjo 103 ...

Through his work as a solo artist, session musician, collaborator, and member of a host of bluegrass groups over the past 50 years, Jerry Douglas has established himself as arguably the premier Dobro ...

101 Flint Hill Special / Flatt and Scruggs (Musical group), Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt. Banjo,Guitar 102 Your Love is Like a Flower / Flatt and Scruggs (Musical group), Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt.

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

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 ...

Earl Scruggs, the banjo virtuoso whose blazing three-finger attack – now commonly called “Scruggs style” – revolutionized the instrument’s use in bluegrass and country music, died Wednesday morning at ...

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 ...