Flatt,Lester / Scruggs,Earl & Foggy Mountain Boys 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.

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 29. Be Ready For Tomorrow May Never Come 30. Someone Took My Place With You 31. Foggy Mountain Special 32. Till The End Of The World Rolls Around 33. You Can Feel It In Your Soul 34. Before I Met You 35. Bubbling In My Soul 36. Randy Lynn Rag 37. Give Mother My Crown 38. No Doubt About It 39. Six White Horses 40. Give Me Flowers While I'm Living 41. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down 42. (I Won't Care) A Hundred Years From Now 43. Big Black Train 44. Building On Sand 45. I Don't Care Anymore 46. Million Years In Glory 47. Cabin In The Hills 48. Crying My Heart Out Over You 49. The Great Historical Bum 50. Polka On A Banjo 51. Sally Ann 52. I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow 53. Lonesome Road Blues 54. Go Home 55. Just Ain't 56. Legend Of The Johnson Boys 57. The Ballad Of Jed Clampett