Lester Flatt & Earl & Foggy Mountain Boys Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Collection 1948-62 (CD)

Guitarist and mandolinist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs were among the leading exponents of bluegrass music in the post-war era. Scruggs is famous for developing the three-finger style of banjo picking, elevating it's status from being a background accompanying instrument to a featured solo role. Both Flatt and Scruggs had been members of Bill Monroe's ground-breaking band during the 1940s, resigning from that outfit in 1948 due to it's punishing touring schedule, and forming their own band The Foggy Mountain Boys, themselves becoming one of the best known and longest-established bluegrass bands of all time. This great-value 56-track 2-CD set comprises selected A and B sides of their singles on the Mercury and Columbia labels during what is generally regarded as one of their classic eras of recording. It features their eight US pop and country hits during these years, including the country No. 1 "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett", and the Top 10 country hits "Tis Sweet To Be Remembered", "Cabin In The Hills" and "Go Home". Among the noted band members featured here are mandolin player Curly Seckler and fiddle player Paul Warren. Including vocal and instrumental performances, and with original songs alongside compositions by other writers, and examples of the classic bluegrass "breakdown" style, it's a feast of top-class and archetypal bluegrass music by two of it's most illustrious representatives.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Disc 1:
2. God Loves His Children
3. I'm Going To Make Heaven My Home
4. My Cabin In Caroline
5. Baby Blue Eyes
6. Down The Road
7. I'll Be Going To Heaven Sometime
8. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
9. So Happy I'll Be
10. I'll Never Love Another
11. Cora Is Gone
12. Pain In My Heart
13. Doin' My Time
14. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
15. Old Salty Dog Blues
16. Come Back Darling
17. We Can't Be Darlings Any More
18. Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
19. Don't Get Above Your Raisin'
20. Tis Sweet To Be Remembered
21. Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go
22. I'll Stay Around
23. Over The Hills To The Poor House
24. I'm Gonna Settle Down
25. Why Did You Wander
26. Dear Old Dixie
27. I'm Working On A Road (To Glory Land)
28. I'll Go Steppin' Too

Disc: 2

1. Be Ready For Tomorrow May Never Come
2. Someone Took My Place With You
3. Foggy Mountain Special
4. Till The End Of The World Rolls Around
5. You Can Feel It In Your Soul
6. Before I Met You
7. Bubbling In My Soul
8. Randy Lynn Rag
9. Give Mother My Crown
10. No Doubt About It
11. Six White Horses
12. Give Me Flowers While I'm Living
13. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
14. (I Won't Care) A Hundred Years From Now
15. Big Black Train
16. Building On Sand
17. I Don't Care Anymore
18. Million Years In Glory
19. Cabin In The Hills
20. Crying My Heart Out Over You
21. The Great Historical Bum
22. Polka On A Banjo
23. Sally Ann
24. I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
25. Lonesome Road Blues
26. Go Home
27. Just Ain't
28. Legend Of The Johnson Boys
29. The Ballad Of Jed Clampett