Biography of lester flatt g

Lester Flatt, in partnership with banjoist Earl Scruggs, led the most popular band in bluegrass music from the late s till the end of the s. With Scruggs, he wrote country and bluegrass standards like "Don't Get Above Your Raisin'," "Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky" and "Crying My Heart Out Over You."

Flatt was born into a musical family in Duncan's Chapel, Tennessee, near Brotherton.

His father was a fiddler. One of his brothers was a guitarist and singer.

Biography of lester flatt g

A sister played banjo.

Flatt attended school until he was 12, then joined his father working in a sawmill near Sparta, Tennessee. He married at 17, and both he and wife Gladys Stacey Flatt worked in a series of textile mills.

By the end of the s, they were also performing together. They entertained over radio stations in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee and joined Charlie Monroe's popular group, the Kentucky Pardners.

Charlie's brother, Bill Monroe, offered Flatt a position in his Blue Grass Boys band in This bro