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    • Jan 6, 1924
    Earl Scruggs is born in Shelby, North Carolina. The innovative banjo man joins Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys in the 1940s, then forms a duo with Lester Flatt on the way to the Country Music Hall of Fame as one of bluegrass' pillars
    Dec 8, 1945
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs perform together on the Grand Ole Opry for the first time as members of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. The moment at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium is regarded as the birth of bluegrass
    Sep 16, 1946
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs record for the first time with Bill Monroe in Columbia Records' Chicago studio. The day yields the original version of "Blue Moon Of Kentucky," the chart hit "Toy Heart" and "Mansions For Me"
    Sep 17, 1946
    Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys, including Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, record "Wicked Path Of Sin" at Chicago's Columbia Studios
    Oct 27, 1947
    Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, including Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, record "Sweetheart, You Done Me Wrong," "It's Mighty Dark To Travel" and "Blue Grass Breakdown" in Chicago
    Oct 28, 1947
    Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, featuring Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, record "Little Community Church" and "When You Are Lonely" in Chicago
    Apr 18, 1948
    Earl Scruggs marries Louise Certain in Gaffney, South Carolina, two months after leaving Bill Monroe's band. She becomes the manager of Flatt & Scruggs
    May 18, 1949
    Earl Scruggs' first son, Gary Scruggs, is born in Knoxville
    Dec 11, 1949
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs record "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" at the E.T. Herzog Studio in Cincinnati, Ohio. The song becomes a bluegrass classic, as well as the theme song for the 1967 movie "Bonnie And Clyde"
    Oct 20, 1950
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs hold their final session for Mercury Records, at the WDAE Studio in Tampa, Florida, recording "Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms"
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