Friday Music

This bluegrass instrumental was composed in the common breakdown format by Earl Scruggs.  It was recorded and released by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs along with the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1949.  

In 1968,  the 1949 version recorded by Mercury Records along with a new version recorded by Columbia Records were simultaneously listed at No. 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.  In 1969 Flatt and Scruggs were awarded a Grammy for Best Country Performance, Duo or Group and were subsequently inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.  In 2002, Scruggs won an additional Grammy for a 2001 performance featuring Steve Martin on second banjo, Albert Lee, Vince Gill, Randy Scruggs on guitars, Marty Stuart on mandolin, Jerry Douglas on dobro, Leon Russell on organ, Gary Scruggs on harmonica and Paul Shaffer on piano.  Wow!

In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

The number of times it has been covered or used as background music is too many to tally.  

Foggy Mountain Breakdown....