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    • Mar 11, 1969
    After 25 years as a bluegrass duo, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs split up
    Mar 12, 1969
    Flatt & Scruggs win Best Country Performance, Duo or Group--Vocal or Instrumental with a remake of their own "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" during the 11th annual Grammy Awards
    Aug 22, 1969
    Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs record together for the last time, five months after they broke up the duo, at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville. Among the session's musicians are two future members of the Country Music Hall of Fame: Charlie Daniels and Charlie McCoy
    Apr 11, 1970
    Alabama governor Albert Brewer campaigns at Sage Avenue Park in Mobile, supported with appearances by Kitty Wells, Red Sovine, Bob Luman and Lester Flatt
    Apr 19, 1970
    A storm with 80-mile-per-hour winds rips through Middle Tennessee, tearing the back porch off Lester Flatt's home and sinking his boat house along the Cumberland River in Hendersonville, Tennessee
    Aug 10, 1972
    Lester Flatt records a new version of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" in Nashville with a band that includes mandolin player Roland White. The track receives a Grammy nomination for Best Country Instrumental Performance
    Sep 3, 1972
    Lester Flatt invites 13-year-old Marty Stuart to become a member of his band, the Nashville Grass, in Glasgow, Delaware. Stuart accepts
    Oct 18, 1972
    Fourteen-year-old Marty Stuart makes his recording debut as a member of Lester Flatt's band at Nashville's RCA Studio B. The session includes a performance of "Don't Get Above Your Raising"
    Nov 6, 1972
    Lester Flatt performs in Beckley, West Virginia, in a campaign rally for Emerson Stover, a candidate for sheriff of Raleigh County. The band includes 14-year-old musician Marty Stuart
    Dec 13, 1973
    The Associated Press reports Lester Flatt has filed suit against Esquire magazine, seeking $500,000 for what he claims is career damage created when the publication portrayed him as "the late" Lester Flatt
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