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What an amazing year 1966 was in music. Dylan's Blonde on Blonde hit the racks. So did The Beatles' Revolver, The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, The Stones' Aftermath and so many more.Into this stellar crowd quietly strolled Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, the third studio album by Greenwich Village's own folk-rock mavens. Today the disc just barely makes it onto a list of the top 50 albums of that lush, flush year, but in its own way, it made wonderful waves.Hums — which would ultimately be the last full project by the Spoonful's original lineup — was the band's concerted effort to record in a wide variety of styles on a single disc. For it, they composed and played pop-, country-, jugband-, folk- and blues-fused tunes.The album spawned four charting singles, including “Summer in the City,” “Rain on the Roof,” “Nashville Cats” and "Full Measure.”Of “Nashville Cats,” principal songwriter John Sebastian said, "We thought our version would cross over to the country market. It never did. So we're always kinda, gee, well, I guess that tells us what we are — and what we aren't."Incidentally, Flatt & Scruggs did take "Nashville Cats" to the country charts, hitting No. 54 with it as a single.And elsewhere in the country crowd, Johnny Cash and June Carter covered Hums' “Darlin' Companion” on 1969's Johnny Cash at San Quentin album.About This Song“Loving You,” Hums' opening track, was never a hit single for the Spoonful, but a month after the disc's release in November 1966, Bobby Darin made the Top 40 with a cover version of the tune. Subsequently, the song also became a good vehicle for four different female vocalists, including Anne Murray (1969), Helen Reddy (1973) and Dolly Parton (1977) and Mary Black (1983).Meanwhile, the song came into the Floodisphere before The Flood was even The Flood.In 1975, after a year of regularly jamming together, Charlie and David started looking for new material to work on beyond their main interests in folk music, and for a brief time they landed on The Lovin' Spoonful's catalog.Here — like the audio version of a crinkled old baby picture — is a sound clip fished from The Flood archives. Click the button below to hear Charlie and Dave sampling the song exactly 50 years ago this week at a jam session at the Peyton House:The Spoonful's Jug Band RootsOnly later did Bowen and Peyton realize that The Lovin' Spoonful had been heavily influenced by some of the same 1920s-'30s jug band tunes that The Flood loves. Before he founded the Spoonful, John Sebastian with his partner Zal Yanovsky, long active in Greenwich Village's folk scene, set out to create an "electric jug band.”"Yanovsky and I were both aware of the fact that this commercial folk music model was about to change again,” Sebastian recalled, “that the four-man band that actually played their own instruments and wrote their own songs was the thing.”In early 1965, as they prepared for their first public performances, Sebastian and Yanovsky along with their new band mates Joe Butler and Steve Boone, searched for a name.It was Fritz Richmond, the washtub bass player for the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, who suggested “The Lovin' Spoonful,” referring to the lyrics of the song "Coffee Blues" by the country blues musician Mississippi John Hurt. It worked and it stuck.Our 2025 Take on the TuneAt last week's rehearsal, The Flood channeled those rich jug band roots of the Spoonful. For this tune, Jack switched from his usual drum kit to those funky wooden spoons and Charlie reached for the five-string. Then Danny, Sam and Randy just did what they always do to make it all work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

This week we feature fiddler with Johnny Warren.  As most listeners will know, Johnny is the son of bluegrass fiddle legend Paul Warren who spent years performing with Flatt & Scruggs and then toured with Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass after Flatt and Scruggs parted ways.  Johnny is the fiddle player for the Earls of Leicester.  We talk with Johnny about his father and about playing his father's role as the fiddler in the Earls of Leicester.

This week we feature the Infamous Stringdusters guitar player Andy Falco.  The Stringdusters have recently released a tribute album to Flatt & Scruggs.  We talk with Andy about his early days in bluegrass, his work with the Stringdusters, and the new album.

In this week's podcast we talk about an album by and American Artist named John Stewart called Dream Babies Go Hollywood, one by American bluegrass duo Flatt and Scruggs, a 2 album compilation called The World of Flatt and Scruggs and one by American country rock band The Ozark Mountain Daredevils called Don't Look Down. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reviewsfromthecrawlspace/message

As hired musicians we often take on MC duties in addition to audience banter and band introductions. Are you speaking slowly and clearly enough so that your audience can understand what you're saying? Andy and special guest, Smith Allen, discuss this topic then perform the Flatt & Scruggs classic "Why Don't You Tell Me So" LIVE from Lake Tahoe.Email YOUR gig tips and tricks to haveagreatgig@gmail.com or visit haveagreatgig.comFollow on Instagram and Twitter @haveagreatgigPresented by Wood & Steel Live Music Co. California's Finest Live Bands for Weddings & Events. Book your band now at woodandsteel.live

Musicians include: Hank Thompson, Hank Williams, Hank Locklin, Ernest Tubb, Little Jimmy Dickens, Eddie Arnold and Flatt & Scruggs. Music includes: Send Me The Pillow, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Slipping Around, Lovesick Blues and Mule Train.

WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with country music legend Ricky Skaggs, who performs at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia for two nights this weekend. They spoke in 2015 when he performed at The Birchmere with Ry Cooder and wife Sharon White, discussing his humble beginnings with Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs to eventually becoming CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1985.

Welcome to the mountain!  Let's enjoy music by Bill Monroe, Del McCoury, Patty Loveless, Flatt & Scruggs, Don Reno & Red Smiley, Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys, Vince Gill, Michael Cleveland, Hot Rize, Sam Bush, and Wood Belly.

Prolific fiddle player, golf professional and son of a Hall of Fame fiddler, Johnny Warren is a member of the bluegrass supergroup, the Earls of Leicester, whose mission is to promote the timeless sound of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys. With the Earls, Johnny helps preserve his father, Paul Warren’s, classic fiddle style. In this episode of Season 2 of Walls of Time, Daniel talks with Johnny backstage at Memorial Hall in Cincinnati, a mere blocks away from where Flatt & Scruggs recorded some of their earliest records, including “Foggy Mountain Breakdown.” They chat about Johnny’s time growing up around some the founding fathers of Bluegrass, as well as Johnny's journey of carrying on his father's traditional flavor of fiddling. Johnny also talks about his career in the golf industry as both a player and instructor. Today, we welcome the great fiddler, Johnny Warren to the Walls of Time: Bluegrass Podcast.This episode is brought to you by the following sponsors: -- Samson's Haircare: samsonshaircare.com (Use code BLUEGRASS to save 10%.) -- Best Self Co: bestself.co (Use code BLUEGRASS to save 15%) 

It's all about train songs this week here on the mountain.  Steven Simpson, Carl Peterson, Flatt & Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, Dave Kline & The Mountain Folk Band, The Seldom Scene, Bill Monroe and others keep the music rolling along the rails.  Enjoy!

Songs include: Mountain Music, When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain, Mountain Dew, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Mountain Greenery & Mountain Top Blues. Artists include: Kate Smith, Bessie Smith, Ozzie Nelson, Eugene Ormandy, Flatt & Scruggs, Cab Calloway, Roger Wolfe Kahn & Charlie Shavers.

Vandaag met fijne muziek van Flatt & Scruggs, Teddy’s Hit, Steve French, Pip Blom, Hollis Brown, Ben van Looy, Bill Callahan en Willie Nelson.

The last in our series of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame Special Inductees is our artist feature, Jake Tullock who worked with Flatt & Scruggs. We have birthdays to celebrate and some amazing new music! We hope you enjoy the show!

RCA gets their logo, Trigger goes Hollywood, Hank & Audrey divorce again, Monroe plays with Flatt & Scruggs again, Jerry Lee Lewis almost dies again, and you could vote for Kinky in Texas. All that and more in today's podcast! Be sure to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google, and Spotify! You can also ask Siri or Google to "play the podcast Today In Country Music History"

Today we pay tribute to Lester Flatt in honour of his birthday this week with some Flatt & Scruggs and Lester Flatt and Bill Monroe singing together!Some birthdays to celebrate and great new music!

PART ONE Scott and Paul have some fun talking about artists who look just like they sound - and those who don't! PART TWO - 11:23 mark The guys talk about their Patreon page, Billy Edd Wheeler's new book, and how five lucky listeners can score a free signed copy for themselves. PART THREE - 18:00 mark Scott and Paul's in-depth conversation with Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Billy Edd Wheeler Scott & Paul chat with the Yale-educated "hillbilly poet" about how Pat Boone covering his song gave him a crash course in music business shenanigans; why he wishes Richie Havens hadn't covered "High Flyin' Bird" at Woodstock; the reason legendary songwriter Norman Gimbel said he'd never make any money; the advice Jerry Leiber gave him about how to write lyrics; why he felt like a "man without a country" while appealing to both commercial country audiences and playing at the Newport Folk Festival; the time he picked up the phone to discover Elvis on the other end of the line; and a big revelation about which "Jackson" the iconic song actually refers to. Billy Edd Wheeler’s early chart successes were collaborations with the legendary songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who worked with Wheeler more than they did any other outside writer. The team of Leiber & Stoller & Wheeler’s first significant hit came with The Kingston Trio’s Top 10 pop recording of “The Reverend Mr. Black” in 1963. The trio then found success on the country charts that same year, scoring a Top 10 hit with Hank Snow’s version of “The Woman Who Loved the Man Who Robbed the Bank at Santa Fe And Got Away.” Wheeler is best known for writing “Jackson,” a major hit for Johnny Cash and June Carter in 1967, and “Blistered,” which was a Top 5 hit for Cash shortly after. Other artists who reached the Top 20 with Wheeler’s compositions include Hank Williams, Jr., Johnny Duncan, Jerry Reed, Elvis Presley, and Kenny Rogers, who took “Coward of the County” to #1 on the country chart, and #3 on the pop rankings. Additionally, Wheeler’s songs have been recorded by Judy Collins, Jim Croce, Richie Havens, Bobby Darin, Neil Young, Gram Parsons, Jefferson Airplane, Jerry Lee Lewis, Flatt & Scruggs, Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn, Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell, John Denver, Jimmy Buffett, Wanda Jackson, Chet Atkins, George Strait, Warren Haynes, and others. As an artist, Billy Edd has released nearly 20 albums, and has placed seven singles on the Billboard country chart. His first, “Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back,” became a Top 5 hit in 1965. He has earned multiple ASCAP awards, and is a member of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame and the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001. Wheeler, who pursued his graduate studies at the Yale School of Drama, is also an accomplished playwright, painter, and author, most notably of a revealing new memoir, Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout: A Hillbilly Poet's Journey From Appalachia to Yale to Writing Hits for Elvis, Johnny Cash & More.

Historical facts about country artists Tex Ritter, Flatt & Scruggs, Freddy Fender, Garth Brooks, Dierks Bentley and we remember the birthday of Carl Smith.

Jerry Douglas in the encyclopedias as the singular innovator of the Dobro, that horizontal acoustic slide guitar developed in the early 20th century. But that's like calling Charlie Parker a saxophone player. Jerry is a consummate creator who found an unlikely muse and who made the most of it. Among the vast catalog, Douglas has recorded or performed with: Charlie Waller's Country Gentlemen, The Whites, Ricky Skaggs, JD Crowe, Dolly Parton, Ray Charles, James Taylor, Garth Brooks, Elvis Costello, Bill Frisell and it just goes on and on. Since the mid 90s he's been a key voice, instrumentally and vocally, in Alison Krauss and Union Station. Recently he formed the Earls of Leicester, a deeply traditional bluegrass band that channels the work and feeling of Flatt & Scruggs, and they promptly won every award in sight. And for many of us, the hub of the wheel of Jerry's world has been his lifelong collaborations with fellow newgrass superstars Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Tony Rice and Edgar Meyer. And yet for all his adventures, Jerry the  band leader and composer never quite found the path to writing and recording in an idiom he's loved his whole life. Until now. He's recently released a jazz fusion record called What If.  Also on the show, a short interview with Anna Bek Schwaber, producer and director of The Porchlight Sessions, a profile of the bluegrass community in the 21st century that's newly out as a web pay per view documentary.

He's a singer and a songwriter, a fiddle and mandolin master, a band leader and a valued collaborator.  Tim O'Brien has few peers in his influence on American roots music over the past 40 years. He formed the band Hot Rize in 1978 in Boulder CO with banjo player Pete Wernick, guitarist Charles Sawtelle and bass player Nick Forster. That quartet became arguably the most popular and influential bluegrass band of the 1980s and Hot Rize inspired a vibrant bluegrass scene in Colorado with its own strains and sounds. When the IBMA inaugurated its award show in 1990, Hot Rize won the first Ent of the Year prize. There's been much more - a varied solo career, duo albums considered folk masterpieces with his sister Mollie, an album called Red on Blonde that set the gold standard for Bob Dylan cover records and numerous collaborations with musicians from the US and the UK. Along the way he's had songs recorded by Garth Brooks, Alison Krauss and others. He co-founded the Earls of Leicester, the Flatt & Scruggs inspired band that's become the toast of bluegrass. He's been a case study in excellence and steadiness. Tim OBrien's newest album mingles original and cover songs dedicated to the state where it all began for him - West Virginia. It's called Where The River Meets The Road.

We have a special radio show segment from 1953 featuring early Flatt & Scruggs as well as our usual birthday salutes and new music!

Sierra Hull est née le 27 Septembre 1991 à Byrdstown dans le Tennessee. Elle grandit dans une famille de musiciens et comme beaucoup de familles américaines, Sierra assiste aux offices dans Oak Grove Baptiste Church, chante avec son frère aîné Cody et sa mère, accompagnée par son père à la guitare rythmique. La famille écoute le bluegrass avec des artistes comme Doyle Lawson, Flatt & Scruggs, Tony Rice.

Growing up in Greenwich Village, New York, John Sebastian cut his teeth on American roots music. He formed the Lovin’ Spoonful in the mid-1960s, blending folk, blues, country, rock, and pop to create a string of seven consecutive Top 10 hits, including “Do You Believe in Magic,” “You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice,” “Daydream,” “Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind,” Summer in the City,” Rain on the Roof,” and “Nashville Cats.” Each of them was written or co-written by Sebastian, and two of his compositions - “Summer in the City” and “Do You Believe in Magic”- are listed in Rolling Stone magazine’s ranking of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” In 1976 he scored a #1 solo hit with “Welcome Back,” the theme song to the popular TV show Welcome Back Kotter. He has continued to create engaging roots-oriented sounds with his celebrated J-Band. The Lovin’ Spoonful was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, and Sebastian became a member of the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame in 2008. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Joe Cocker, B.B. King, Sarah Vaughan, Quincy Jones, John Mellencamp, Dolly Parton, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, the Everly Brothers, Isaac Hayes, Flatt & Scruggs, Art Garfunkel, the Bee Gees, The Mamas and the Papas, Bell and Sebastian, Rumer, and many others.

Peter Roller has been exploring guitar styles in a variety of cultural directions since discovering music like the blues of Mississippi Fred McDowell and the Bluegrass of Flatt & Scruggs as a teen. Over the past thirty years, while working as a professional musician and college instructor, he has written a body of guitar-led original music that leans variously towards Hawaiian slack key, bossa nova, Piedmont blues and steel guitar jazz. Roller is releasing his first full length CD of such pieces in Spring 2010, including his Dobro instrumental Rancho Mirage, the only work previously available on the widely popular Narada compilation Masters of Acoustic Guitar. Roller is based in Milwaukee and teaches in the Music Department at Alverno College. He has played and recorded with area performers--bluesman, Steve Cohen, worldbeat band, Paul Cebar & the Milwaukeeans and gospel quartet, the Masonic Wonders. Previously, Roller was the guitar accompanist for first generation country bluesman, Yank Rachell, acting as producer and playing on his Bling Pig release Blues Mandolin Man. Video http://youtu.be/d_Y3H6811ds

(This is the) Squirrel Hunters is a traditional Bluegrass co-op from Madison, WI. In the band's own words..."we make regular musical forays outside the protective walls of Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers and Flatt & Scruggs, but always with caution, and never without a long rifle." titsh.com

Interview from March 26, 2007 with Earl Scruggs and WSM Announcer Eddie Stubbs, recorded live at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Ford Theater in Nashville, Tennessee. Includes songs from Flatt & Scruggs catalog as well as audio from the Flatt & Scruggs TV Show. Part of a monthly series.