[78-L] Mercury Founder Dies

[Gene Baron]

The Flatt and Scruggs Mercury sessions even go back to the late 1940s, and
I have always thought that the Stanley Brothers Mercury recordings
(mid-1950s) are some of the best bluegrass recordings ever.

Gene

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com.invalid
> wrote:

>
> And let's nor forget Jerry Byrd, steel player extraordinaire.
> M
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> On 1/6/2015 10:25 AM, Bill Knowlton wrote:
> > forgotten is Mercury's flirtation with bluegrass in the Fifties with
> Flatt & Scruggs, Carl Storey, and The Stanley Brothers; all three cutting
> real bluegrass standards for the label.
> > This includes Flatt & Scruggs' "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" which was used
> in the soundtrack of "Bonnie & Clyde..."
> >
> > BILL KNOWLTON, "BLUEGRASS RAMBLE," WCNY-FM, SYRACUSE NY
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