Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Música

Lester Flatt Earl Scruggs And The Foggy Mountain Boys Were An Influential Bluegrass Band Performing And Recording In The 1940s 1950s And 1960s. Flatt And Scruggs Met As Members Of Bill Monroe's Band The Blue Grass Boys In 1946. They Both Left That Band Early In 1948 And Within A Few Months Had Formed Their Own Group The Foggy Mountain Boys. Scruggs' Banjo Style And Flatt's Vocals Gave Them A Distinctive Sound That Won Them Many Fans. In 1955 They Became Members Of The Grand Ole Opry. Many Of The Songs On Their Albums Are Credited To "Certain And Stacey". These Were In Fact Written By Flatt And Scruggs And Various Other Members Of The Foggy Mountain Boys. Certain And Stacey Are The Maiden Names Of The Wives Of Flatt And Scruggs. Louise Certain Wife Of Earl Scruggs And Gladys Stacey Wife Of Lester Flatt. Scruggs Who Had Always Shown Progressive Tendencies Experimented On Duets With Saxophonist King Curtis And Added Songs By The Likes Of Bob Dylan To The Group's Repertoire. Flatt A Traditionalist Did Not Like These Changes And The Group Broke Up In 1969. Following The Breakup Lester Flatt Founded The Nashville Grass And Scruggs Lead The Earl Scruggs Revue. Flatt Died In 1979 While Scruggs Continued To Perform Until His Death In March 2012. Flatt And Scruggs Were Elected To The Country Music Hall Of Fame In 1985 Flatt & Scruggs May Be Best Known However As The Performers Of "The Ballad Of Jed Clampit" The Theme Song From The Sixties Television Show "The Beverly Hillbillies". Flatt & Scruggs Made Cameo Appearances On The "The Beverly Hillbillies" As Well. read less

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"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" is a bluegrass music instrumental by the bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs. It is used (anachronistically) as background music in the 1967 motion picture Bonnie and Clyde, especially in the car chase scenes, and has been used in a similar manner in many other films and television programs, particularly when depicting a pursuit scene in a rural setting. It was written by Earl Scruggs and recorded in 1949 by Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, with Scruggs playing a Gibson Granada five-string banjo. It is closely related to Bill Monroe's "Bluegrass Breakdown" which Earl helped to write. It featured the same opening double hammer-on, but "Bluegrass Breakdown" goes to an F major chord whereas Foggy Mountain Breakdown goes to the G major chord's relative minor, an E minor chord. The most recognizable part of this song is the slide on the fourth string of the banjo from the first fret to the second forming the E minor chord. Many five-string banjo players consider "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" one of the instrument's fastest and most rhythmically challenging pieces. Only very skilled five-string banjo players can play it at the same speed and beat that Scruggs can. Scruggs won a Grammy award in 2002 for the 2001 recording of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", which featured among others, actor and comedian Steve Martin on second banjo, Albert Lee and Vince Gill on guitars, Marty Stuart on mandolin, and Paul Shaffer on piano.[3] The song has been covered by a number of artists, including slap bass player Stu Hamm under the title of "Country Music (A Night in Hell)", which appeared on Hamm's 1988 album "Radio Free Albemuth". In 1968, both the 1949 Mercury records version and a newly recorded Columbia version were listed at one position of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #55. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.