- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Flatt & Scruggs · 1959
- Flatt & Scruggs - The Complete Mercury Recordings · 1959
- Lester 'N' Mac · 1971
- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Flatt & Scruggs · 1963
- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Flatt & Scruggs · 1996
- The Essential · 1949
- Appalachia: The Best of Bluegrass · 2001
- Foggy Mountain Banjo · 1949
- RCA Country Legends: Lester Flatt · 1973
- Country Boy Featuring Feudin' Banjos · 1973
- RCA Country Legends: Lester Flatt · 1973
- The One and Only Lester Flatt · 1970
- Country Boy Featuring Feudin' Banjos · 1973
Essential Albums
- By the time Flatt & Scruggs released Foggy Mountain Banjo in 1961, the band had already been at it for over a decade, shepherding hillbilly music—or bluegrass, as it had come to be called—into something like the mainstream, guesting regularly on nationally syndicated media and joining folk festivals aimed at audiences looking to recover something “real”. Decades later, the music here retains an intensity more germane to punk than anything else, driven by thumping bass, searing fiddle and the breathless picking of banjo player Earl Scruggs, who seems to have been given more fingers than most. Down-home as they were, there are times—“Cumberland Gap”, “Lonesome Road Blues”, “Bugle Call Rag”—when the band appears to wheel up and leave the ground.
- 2015
- 1996
- 1975
- 1974
Singles & EPs
Appears On
About Lester Flatt
After Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs parted ways in 1969, Flatt reassembled many of the Foggy Mountain Boys, renamed the group Nashville Grass, and toured very successfully until his death in 1979. Unlike Scruggs, who with his sons moved on to music that was only marginally country, Flatt and the Grass stuck to traditional bluegrass material. Even without Scruggs, the band shone, and Flatt's vocals, musical direction, and taste received the credit they had so long deserved. ~ David Vinopal
- HOMETOWN
- Overton County, TN, United States
- BORN
- 19 June 1914
- GENRE
- Country