Foggy Mountain Banjo

by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys

Foggy Mountain Banjo cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1961
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 25:12
  • Community rating: 3.75/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An essential text in American acoustic music, 'Foggy Mountain Banjo' serves primarily as an instrumental showcase for Earl Scruggs' revolutionary three-finger banjo technique. The brisk, flawlessly executed traditional tunes fundamentally shaped the vocabulary of modern bluegrass instrumentation.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, mountains

Tracklist

  1. Ground Speed (2:12)
  2. Home Sweet Home (2:13)
  3. Sally Ann (2:09)
  4. Little Darlin', Pal of Mine (1:55)
  5. Reuben (2:00)
  6. Cripple Creek (2:06)
  7. Lonesome Road Blues (2:01)
  8. John Henry (2:05)
  9. Fire Ball Mail (1:52)
  10. Sally Goodwin (2:11)
  11. Bugle Call Rag (2:28)
  12. Cumberland Gap (1:56)

Credits

  • Pearl Harbour - primary artist, written-by
  • Earl Burroughs - written-by
  • Geraint Watkins - written-by
  • Otis Watkins - written-by
  • Nigel Dixon - written-by
  • Bill Cox - written-by
  • Clarke Van Ness - written-by
  • Ian Dury - written-by

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