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Lester Flatt
Overton County, Tennessee, USA
Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 – May 11, 1979) was an American bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in The Fog…
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Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 – May 11, 1979) was an American bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in The Foggy Mountain Boys (popularly known as "Flatt and Scruggs"). Flatt's career spanned multiple decades, breaking out as a member of Bill Monroe's band during the 1940s and including multiple solo and collaboration works exclusive of Scruggs. He first reached a mainstream audience through his performance on "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", the theme for the network television hit The Beverly Hillbillies, in the early 1960s. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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2019
Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music
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2013
That's Bluegrass
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2007
Opry Video Classics: Pioneers
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1992
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music
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1965
Country Music on Broadway
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1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
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