Flatt & Scruggs

The Recording Academy® has announced the latest additions to its legendary Grammy Hall Of Fame® collection. Included in this select few in the 2012 inductees to the Grammy Hall of Fame® is the Columbia Records’ 1957 album by Lester Flatt and

On this day in 1950 ..... On November 21, 1950, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs had their first recording session for Columbia Records. During an afternoon session at The Tulane Hotel (Castle Studio) Nashville, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - assisted by

Johnny Warren and Charlie Cushman are finishing up a second album in tribute to Johnny's dad, Paul Warren, long time fiddler with Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. Like the first project, A Tribute To Fiddlin' Paul Warren,

The Virginia Museum of Radio Entertainment is a new non-profit organization based in Crewe, Virginia (west of Richmond), at the historic WSVS 800 AM radio station. Its mission is to turn WSVS into a working museum and have it designated

Tom Thomas, who operates the web site for The Flatt & Scruggs Preservation Society, has posted a discography of the band's many recordings, but singles and LPs - plus the more recent compilations. It was sent to the society by a

Penny Parsons passed along this word about one of the legends from the early days of bluegrass music. Penny is a bluegrass writer and photographer who currently manages the performance career of Curly Seckler. Jody Rainwater (a.k.a Chuck Johnson), who spent

Tom Thomas, the President of the Flatt and Scruggs Preservation Society, has announced the creation of a blog that will naturally focus on matters relating to Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Thomas said of his blog... "(It) will display any new information

Volumes 7 and 8 of the fantastic series of DVDs of the Flatt & Scruggs TV Shows from the 1950s and 1960s will be released by Shanachie Records on February 24. One of these sets features the earliest surviving show, from

They came from Japan...  Hordes of miniature Lester and Earls! What a movie poster that would make. Japanese retailer Kurama Instruments specializes in bluegrass instruments and accessories, and on their web site - along with the banjos and mandolins, capos and tuners

WSVS, AM 800 in Crewe, VA has been a radio home to bluegrass music since the station's inception in 1947. The station became most closely associated with bluegrass through the involvement of Charles Johnson (Little Jody Rainwater), who joined the