Lester Flatt
Lester Raymond Flatt
appears on 5 albums
Lester Flatt (born June 19, 1914, Overton County, Tennessee, USA - died May 11, 1979, Nashville, Tennessee, USA) was an American singer and guitarist. He was one of the pioneers of bluegrass music. Along with Earl Scruggs he founded the . He first reached a mainstream audience in the early 1960s through his performance on "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," the theme for the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies.
Member of
- Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
- Flatt & Scruggs
- The Foggy Mountain Quartet