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Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were influential bluegrass musicans during the 1950s and 1960s.The two met as members of Bill Monroe's band. 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. The two split in 1969, each going on to lead his own group. Flatt died in 1974, while Scruggs is still living.
Notable songs:
- Foggy Mountain Breakdown - an instrumental used in many rural car chase movie sequences, notably in Bonnie and ClydeBonnie and Clyde Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were American criminals who traveled the southwestern United States during the Great Depression, robbing banks and generally causing chaos with their cohorts. It is estimated that they were responsible for a.
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