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"
Foggy Mountain Breakdown" is a famous
bluegrass music instrumental by the seminal bluegrass artists
Flatt and Scruggs. It is used (anachronistically) as background music in the
1967 motion picture
Bonnie and Clyde, especially in the car chase scenes, and has been used in a similar manner in many other pictures and
television programs, particularly when depicting a pursuit scene in a
rural setting.
It was written by
Earl Scruggs and recorded in
1949 by
Flatt and Scruggs and the
Foggy Mountain Boys, with Scruggs playing a
Gibson Granada 5-string banjo. It is closely related to
Bill Monroe's "Bluegrass Breakdown" which Earl helped to write. It featured the same opening double
hammer on, but "Bluegrass Breakdown" goes to an F
Major chord whereas Foggy Mountain Breakdown goes to the G Major chord's relative minor, an E
Minor chord. The most recognizable part of this song is the slide on the fourth string of the banjo from the first fret to the second forming the E
Minor chord
Many
5-string banjo players consider Foggy Mountain Breakdown one of the instrument's fastest and most rhythmically challenging pieces. Only very skilled 5-string banjo players can play it at the same speed and beat that Scruggs can.
Scruggs won a
Grammy award in 2002 for the 2001 recording of Foggy Mountain Breakdown, which featured among others, actor and comedian
Steve Martin on 2nd banjo,
Albert Lee and
Vince Gill on guitars,
Marty Stuart on mandolin, and
Paul Shaffer on piano.
In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the
Library of Congress to be added to the
National Recording Registry.
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