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Nov 16, 1949
Songwriter and bluegrass musician Larry Cordle is born in Cordell, Kentucky. He pens Ricky Skaggs' "Highway 40 Blues," Diamond Rio's "Mama Don't Forget To Pray For Me" and George Strait & Alan Jackson's "Murder On Music Row," among others
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"
Feb 3, 1950
Bill Monroe holds his first recording session for Decca Records in Nashville at the Castle Studio in the Tulane Hotel. For the first time, his studio musicians include vocalist/guitarist Jimmy Martin and fiddler Vassar Clements
Mar 13, 1950
Columbia releases Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys' "Can't You Hear Me Callin'." The song will become the title of a comprehensive Monroe biography
Mar 15, 1950
Mercury releases Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," which becomes the theme to Warren Beatty's movie "Bonnie And Clyde"
Oct 15, 1950
Bill Monroe records the original version of "Uncle Pen" during an afternoon session in Nashville. The song references the fiddle classics "Soldier's Joy" and "Jenny Lynn"
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"
Oct 26, 1950
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs sign with Columbia Records, where the bluegrass duo will reach its commercial peak
Nov 3, 1950
The Stanley Brothers record "I'm A Man Of Constant Sorrow" at the Castle Studio in Nashville. Their version of the song, which will be added to the Grammy Hall of Fame, provides a template for the version by the fictitious Soggy Bottom Boys used in the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Nov 21, 1950
A month after wrapping their deal with Mercury, Flatt & Scruggs hold their first recording session for Columbia at the Castle Studios in Nashville
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