Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lester Flatt's Martin D-18 acoustic guitar – an instrument that helped pave the way for traditional bluegrass music – is set to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

If Bill Monroe was the Father of Bluegrass, Lester Flatt is surely one of its disciples. Born on this day (June 19) in 1914 in Overton County, Tennessee, Flatt teamed up with banjo virtuoso Earl ...

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 ...

David Johnston, banjo player for the Yonder Mountain String Band, says the music of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys launched his career in music. In June of 1993, I was ...

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Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys have been one of the most beloved and influential bluegrass bands of all time. In their 20-year run from the late 1940s through the late 1960s, ...

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 ...

Country Music Memories: 'The Ballad of Jed Clampett' Hits No. 1 To this day, the song lives on. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs are known as pioneers of bluegrass music and their band, the Foggy ...

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs are known as pioneers of bluegrass music and their band, the Foggy Mountain Boys, is considered one of the most iconic groups in the genre's history. Formed in 1948, the ...

Click to open image viewer. Lester Flatt ranks as one of the all-time preeminent lead singers in bluegrass music. He spent the major years of his career, from 1948 to 1969, as half of the legendary ...