The collection includes a little over 400 lots, but few stand as significant as Flatt’s D-18. It is considered the very first ...

Legendary fingerpicker Flatt wielded this D-18 while he played with Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys, and used it to help pave ...

His ensemble, The Blue Grass Boys, was a band and a platform for several bluegrass prodigies like Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs to showcase their brilliance. There's something celestial about Alison ...

Bluegrass inspired modern country music in a huge way, so it makes sense that these four legends got their start in the ...

The show claimed to raise your pigskin IQ. To get my weekly prescription of smart pills, I’d tune in the crackling, AM ...

In 1979, a 20-year-old Stuart was hanging out in Nashville with Bob Dylan, who asked Stuart if the iconic bluegrass duo of Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt ever talked anymore. Stuart ...

Country's new breakout stars like Dasha, Jelly Roll and Post Malone are evolving perceptions of the genre at its century-old ...

Wayne Steadham, who has attended the Walnut Valley Festival every year since 1972, says the campground culture is the ...

The following year, after sitting in with Lester Flatt’s band, The Nashville Grass, he was asked to join the band as a permanent member, just shy of his fourteenth birthday. After Flatt died ...

Just then, they heard Scruggs perform “The Wildwood Flower” with Lester Flatt and Mother Maybelle Carter. And I almost passed out. They did “Wildwood Flower” and they followed with some ...

The last time the Grand Ole Opry had so many new artists making debut performances, Marty Stuart was a 13-year-old bluegrass prodigy rubbing shoulders with Lester Flatt and Gram Parsons.