Flatt and Scruggs - Folk Songs of Our Land - Hard Travelin' 2010

In 1944, Lester Flatt came to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee as a featured vocalist and guitarist. The Skill and sincerity with which he sings make him an outstanding performer in any number he undertakes, whether it is ballads, blues or hymns. Earl Scruggs managed to play tunes on his banjo before he was five years old. At the age of ten, he developed a unique style of playing the banjo with three fingers which is known nationally as Scruggs-Style Picking. In 1945, when he first came to Nashville, he dazzled audiences with this new, hard-driving, three-fingered technique. It was this artistry that gave life to a band style called Bluegrass.



Combining two of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs Columbia LPs from the early 60s, 1962s Folk Songs of Our Land and 1963s Hard Travelin, on a single CD, this set hardly skips a heartbeat between the two original releases since both are cut from the same fabric, featuring bluegrass renditions of old folk and country tunes like Ellen Smith, The Wreck of the Old 97, Deep Blue Sea, and Woody Guthrie's This Land Is Your Land, as well as the duos hit theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies television show, The Ballad of Jed Clampett. Its fun. Its bluegrass. Its Flatt & Scruggs. (allmusic.com)

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Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - Folk Songs of Our Land-Hard Travelin' 1962-1963
(T-Bird 2010)

1. The Legend Of The Johnson Boys
2. Hear The Wind Blow
3. George Alley's F.F.V.
4. Good Times Are Past And Gone
5. Ellen Smith
6. Sun's Gonna Shine In My Back Door Some Day
7. This Land Is Your Land
8. Philadelphia Lawyer
9. Life Of Trouble
10. Nine Pound Hammer
11. I'll Be No Man's Wife
12. Mckinley's Gone
13. Hard Travelin'
14. Dixie Home
15. The Wreck Of The Old 97
16. Over The Hill To The Poor House
17. Drowned In The Deep Blue Sea
18. Coal Miner's Blues
19. Pastures Of Plenty
20. The Ballad Of Jed Clampett
21. My Native Home
22. When I Left East Virginia
23. 99 Years Is Almost For Life
24. I'm Bound To Ride