Lester Flatt
Lester Flatt Raimond ( born June 19, 1914 Overton County, Tennessee, † May 11, 1979 in Nashville ) was an American country music singer and guitarist.
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 albums
- 4.1 Literature
- 4.2 External links
Life
Childhood
His parents Nannie Mae Haney and Isaac Columbus Flatt played both banjo and Lester learned to play guitar and banjo. Even with seven years he was in the church choir, for his singing, he was known in the village and the surrounding area.
Lester was a teenager textile workers in a silk factory in Sparta, North Carolina, but heard much hillbilly music, was a fan of the Monroe Brothers and yet even played instruments. Its also in the factory busy woman Gladys could also sing and play guitar. 1934, after the closure of the factory, he and his wife moved to McMinnville, Tennessee and worked in a silk factory in Johnson City. The next year they were displaced from their company in the city of Roanoke, Virginia. There they were after work as a duo. In 1939, he joined with friends from Tennessee on the radio as "the harmonizer " on. For health reasons, Lester gave up his job in the factory and concentrated on the music. In the fall of 1940, the Flatts moved to Burlington, North Carolina. There, he performed with the Happy-Go- Lucky Boys with Clyde Moody, who has worked with Bill Monroe. In 1943 he and his wife of Charlie Monroe were engaged. In these formations Flatt sang tenor and played mandolin.
Career
Lester got out, was trucker and worked in radio in North Carolina. There he received a telegram from Bill Monroe, he wanted to perform with Flatt at the Grand Ole Opry. Flatt went into Monroe's band "Bluegrass Boys", but left it in 1948, two weeks after the departure of Earl Scruggs, since Monroe was very much on tour.
Flatt and Scruggs decided to make radio work together. Mac Wiseman and the ex - Blue Grass Boys, Jim Shumate on fiddle and Howard Watts ( artist name Cedric Rainwater ) on bass in 1948 in Hickory, North Carolina, her band, the Foggy Mountain Boys.
Until 1969, this was one of the most successful bluegrass groups. As Wiseman got out, replaced him the mandolin player Curly Seckler. In 1955 she got her own TV show and became members of the Grand Ole Opry. They were more on tour than Monroes times.
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs parted in 1969, and Flatt founded the Nashville Grass band. He played guitar, Roland White Mandolin, Vic Jordan Banjo, Paul Warran Fiddle, Josh Graves and Jake Tulloch Dobro bass. Jordan left this Bill Monroe's band. In 1972 he got out at Nashville Grass to participate in the Earl Scruggs Revue. Flatts Banjo player was Haskell McCormick and the twelve -year-old Marty Stuart in the same year, guitarist of the band.
1979 Flatt had to go to the hospital. For his subsequent recovery phase, he asked Curly Seckler to lead Nashville Grass. Lester Flatt died in another hospital a month after his last Opry appearance on May 11, 1979. 1992 Flatt was added posthumously alongside Earl Scruggs and Bill Monroe as the first artist in the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.
Discography
The Flatt & Scruggs Discography of Flatt & Scruggs see.
Singles
Albums
See also
Flatt & Scruggs