Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall! cover

Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall!

Released

Flatt & Scruggs were almost singlehandedly responsible for giving bluegrass music a national profile in the early 1960s — fortuitously, a time when folk music was becoming a youth-culture craze. (Whether bluegrass fit the “folk music” label was always questionable, but it was at least folk-adjacent.) When they played to an enthusiastic audience at Carnegie Hall in 1963, they had already taken their fame to a new level by supplying soundtrack music for The Beverly Hillbillies, and they run through all their favorites here: “Dig a Hole in the Meadow,” “Salty Dog Blues,” “Hot Corn, Cold Corn,” and even a version of “Big Ball in Boston” rendered slyly as “Big Ball in Brooklyn.” This live album is as good as any of their classic studio recordings.

Rick Anderson

Suggestions
Sing Gospel Echoes of the Stanley Brothers cover

Sing Gospel Echoes of the Stanley Brothers

The Clinch Mountain Boys, Ralph Stanley
Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton cover

Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton

Gaither Carlton, Doc Watson
Call Me cover

Call Me

Al Green
Roll Me, Tumble Me cover

Roll Me, Tumble Me

The Deadly Gentlemen
Goodbye, Babylon cover

Goodbye, Babylon

Various Artists
David Grisman Quintet cover

David Grisman Quintet

The David Grisman Quintet
Thank God cover

Thank God

Doyle Lawson
Dark Was the Night cover

Dark Was the Night

Blind Willie Johnson
Long Gone Out West Blues cover

Long Gone Out West Blues

Pharis & Jason Romero