Foggy Mountain Special [Import]

1. Old Salty Dog Blues

2. I’Ll Just Pretend

3. Come Back Darling

4. I’Ll Stay Around

5. We Can’T Be Darlings Anymore

6. Jimmy Brown, The Newsboy

7. Don’T Get Above Your Raising

8. Tis Sweet To Be Remembered

9. I’M Gonna Settle Down

10. Earl’S Breakdown

11. I’M Lonesome & Blue

12. Over The Hills To The Poorhouse

13. Brother, I’M Getting Ready To Go

14. Why Did You Wander

15. Flint Hill Special

16. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)

17. Dear Old Dixie

18. I’Ll Go Stepping Too

19. Someone Took My Place With You

20. Foggy Mountain Chimes

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Foggy Mountain Special,Flatt & Scruggs,Country Stars,Country,Country/Bluegrass

Average customer rating: Good Collection, But It Could Be Better.

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Tracks:

1. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
2. The Story Of Bonnie And Clyde
3. Petticoat Junction
4. You Are My Flower
5. The Ballad Of Jed Clampett
6. John Henry
7. Foggy Mountain Top
8. Coal Miner's Blues
9. Wabash Cannon Ball
10. Jimmy Brown The Newsboy

Customer Reviews:

Good Collection, But It Could Be Better........2000-03-28

I love old time Country and Bluegrass Music, because as a kid, it's what I grew up listening to. You see, when I was growing up, while all the other people around me were listening to KC and The Sunshine Band, The Little River Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the like, I was listening to Bill Monroe, George Jones, Buck Owens and Flatt and Scruggs. Now to the point. I know enough about the music of these guys to know that this is not a "great" collection, but it IS a good one for someone who wants to get an idea of what Flatt and Scruggs sounded like without having to pay the price the "great" collections cost. There are some classic gems here like "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", "Petticoat Junction" and "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett." Another high point of this collection is the instrumental "John Henry." I remember hearing "Coal Miner's Blues" when I was just a kid and being raised in Lincoln County West Virginia, this song had special meaning as many of the people around us had worked in the mines of Southern West Virginia at some point in their lives. "Wabash Cannon Ball" is a complete waste of space. They should've left that one to Roy Acuff. "Jimmy Brown The Newsboy" and "You Are My Flower" are both classic Flatt and Scruggs songs, but these are re-records: Not the originals, and anyone who knows my taste in music knows I do not usually like re-records. Yes, there are some weak spots in here, but if you want the down home hillbilly music these guys were famous for without paying the price of the really great collections, this one is for you.

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Foggy Mountain Special Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys Manufacturer: Copper Creek ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Foggy Mountain Banjo ASIN: B0000CBLBS Release Date: 2003-09-23

Tracks:

1. Randy Lynn Rag
2. Shuckin' The Corn
3. Fireball
4. Earl's Breakdown
5. Ground Special
6. Foggy Mountain Chimes
7. Georiga Buck
8. Flint Hill Special
9. Dear Old Dixie
10. Foggy Mountain Special
11. Shuckin' The Corn
12. Foggy Mountain Rock

Average customer rating: olmanflattyonthefarm

Foggy Mountain Special Flatt & Scruggs Manufacturer: Country Stars ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Foggy Mountain Gospel ASIN: B0009UX03K Release Date: 2005-06-06

Tracks:

1. Old Salty Dog Blues
2. ILl Just Pretend
3. Come Back Darling
4. ILl Stay Around
5. We CanT Be Darlings Anymore
6. Jimmy Brown, The Newsboy
7. DonT Get Above Your Raising
8. Tis Sweet To Be Remembered
9. IM Gonna Settle Down
10. EarlS Breakdown
11. IM Lonesome & Blue
12. Over The Hills To The Poorhouse
13. Brother, IM Getting Ready To Go
14. Why Did You Wander
15. Flint Hill Special
16. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)
17. Dear Old Dixie
18. ILl Go Stepping Too
19. Someone Took My Place With You
20. Foggy Mountain Chimes
21. Mother Prays Loud In Her Sleep
22. Be Ready For Tomorrow May Never Come
23. Till The End Of The World Rolls Around
24. Foggy Mountain Special

Customer Reviews:

olmanflattyonthefarm.......2006-05-17

Even though this cd took way too long to arrive, It ended up being worth the wait. I bought this cd because I don't have enough money for the box sets so if you want all the flatt and scruggs you can handle, with the least amount of money, this is essential. Dim lights Thick Smoke, Jimmie Brown the Newsboy (Earl Scruggs on lead acoustic guitar!), and I'm lonesome and Blue are all definite reasons attesting to the fact that we all need this! Hearing Scruggs on acoustic guitar makes me want to quit playing mine! I'm sure Flatt didn't give him too many turns on the 6 string because it may have made him look bad. Anyways I highly recommend this along with Flatt and Scruggs Songs of the Famous Carter Family. All songs on foggy mountain special were recorded between 1950 and 1954. This would be the third cd I'd recommend for the collector of flatt and scruggs 1st get the mercury recordings then the tis sweet to be remembered grt hits, then foggy mountain special then songs of the famous carter family. If you have these you should be ok until you win the lottery to but the box sets (I hope I will someday).

Average customer rating: Can I say this? Earl Scruggs: History's Most Imitated Musician Some of the best Essential for banjo pickers, great for bluegrass fans 5 String Banjo

Foggy Mountain Banjo Flatt & Scruggs Manufacturer: Sony Music Special Products ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo: Revised and Enhanced Edition - Book with CD "Dueling Banjos" From The Original Soundtrack: Deliverance At Carnegie Hall! The Essential Flatt & Scruggs: 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered 31 Banjo Favorites, Vol. 1 ASIN: B000002YS9 Release Date: 1995-01-18

Amazon.com essential recording

Despite a painfully short running time of 25 minutes, this 1961 landmark remains one of the most important and influential banjo albums ever made. Released at the height of the folk boom, these 12 instrumentals inspired countless college kids to pick up a five-string banjo and try to emulate the great Earl Scruggs's spectacular three-finger attack. Paul Warren's fiddle and Josh Graves's Dobro keep pace with the master, who creates a template for bluegrass banjo. Although there are more definitive and comprehensive Flatt & Scruggs collections available, Foggy Mountain Banjo will always be a perennial favorite thanks to its original timely release and, of course, the timeless music within. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Can I say this?.......2007-04-19

This is BAR NONE, the best 5-string banjo instrumental album ever recorded.

This is one of those rare albums where you can go five years between listens, and every time you hear it again, the first thing out of your mouth is, "This is still the best there ever was. It's as good now as it was the first time I heard it."

Earl Scruggs: History's Most Imitated Musician.......2006-12-01

It is absolutely mind boggling when you stop to consider that out of the total number of Banjos being made in the last 50 years, how large a percentage were 5 String models; and also how large a percentage were and will be played 3 finger style, as opposed to the older folk styles of "clawhammer"; "frailing"; "drop-thumb".
It can all be traced back to one man: Earl Scruggs, a soft spoken, humble North Carolina gentleman whose playing was anything but soft spoken! Earl has left his proverbial fingerprints on the musical aspirations of the 5 string banjoists for literally generations to come. When it comes to tone and taste, nobody can lay it down like Earl. This album was recorded at the height of their popularity, captured in Columbia's Nashville studio, with audiophile results. The Foggy Mountain Boys' masterful accompaniment, from Lester Flatt's beautifully understated, but powerful guitar; Paul Warren's solid fiddle; Buck "Josh" Graves' equally groundbreaking Dobro; and Jake Tullock's rock-solid, precise, upright bass made this album an absolute neccessity for anyone interested in Bluegrass music. Another recommended instrumental tour de force by Flatt & Scruggs was their 1966 album "Stricly Instrumental-with Doc Watson", together these 3 master musicians sound as if they played together all their lives; and they each considered it one of the most enjoyable recording sessions they'd ever done in their career.
It shows in their playing on every cut.
One by one, almost all of the band members passed on, but Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson still represent the pinnacle of this music. Though both men are now in their 80's they have lost none of their dynamics nor their technique. I hope they both live to be 100....they will still inspire us.

Some of the best.......2006-08-18

These boys are some of the great pickers of all time!

Essential for banjo pickers, great for bluegrass fans.......2006-07-02

The sound of bluegrass music is so elemental and raw that it feels like it's been around forever. Surprisingly, it's not much older than rock 'n' roll; the first true bluegrass star, Earl Scruggs, is getting way up there but as of mid-summer 2006 was still alive and giggin'.

"Foggy Mountain Banjo" could well be the most important recording ever for banjo fans and - perhaps more importantly - banjo pickers. "The Essential Earl Scruggs" offers a much better overview of Scruggs' career, but this disc features many of Scrugs's most important compositions and arrangements (the famed Foggy Mountain Breakdown is NOT on the disc, but every banjo noob's first song - Cripple Creek - is here in all its glory, as are Groundspeed, Cumberland Gap and Fireball Mail).

Rip this disc and slow it down, and you hear how essentially simple Scruggs's left hand (fretboard) fingering is, and how deceptively difficult his right hand (picking) movements are. The right hand is everything with Scruggs; banjo players study every note. Since this disc was recorded a lot of pickers have come forth whose left hands are as busy as their right, producing more complex and considerably more melodic breaks (listening to Don Reno, JD Crowe, Bill Keith, Tony Trischka, Bela Fleck and Jens Kruger is a good way to understand the progression of the instrument). But each of these later players owes it all to Scruggs and the sound he created.

This disc puts mid-career Scruggs front and center, so fans of more modern bluegrass bands might find it somewhat lacking. The tunes aren't complex and the arrangements are simple. At the time this music was recorded the bluegrass guitar was considered purely a rhythm instrument; Lester Flatt was of course the master of bluegrass rhythm playing but there are no flatpicking breaks for guitar players to marvel at. Essentially, lead on this album swaps between banjo and fiddle - there's only minimal dobro and no mandolin. Because only two instruments are stepping out and trading lead, the songs tend to be short - 2:27 is the longest of the dozen songs on the disc.

Anyone learning to pick a banjo needs this disc in their collection - it's a primer on how it's done (no less a player than Tony Trischka will tell you that). For fans of traditional bluegrass, it's an essential. And for those interested in the more modern forms of the evolving art of bluegrass, it's as important a disc as exists. Everything comes from here.

5 String Banjo.......2005-07-20

Ilearned from the record well over 30 years ago. He is the cleanest picker to learn from. A great album also.

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Foggy Mountain Special ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000GG4VK8 Release Date: 2005-08-23

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