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    • Aug 18, 1961
    Columbia releases Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' "Go Home"
    Sep 11, 1961
    Banjo player Richard Bailey is born in Memphis, Tennessee. He becomes a member of the bluegrass band The SteelDrivers, nominees for a country Grammy in 2009
    Mar 19, 1962
    Rose Maddox begins two days of recording in Nashville with Bill Monroe and Reno & Smiley. The resulting "Rose Maddox Sings Bluegrass" is the first bluegrass album recorded by a woman
    Jun 24, 1962
    Bill Monroe brushes off a journalist at Sunset Park in West Grove, Pennsylvania. It's a less than auspicious first meeting with the man who will become the manager that revives Monroe's career, Ralph Rinzler
    Jul 13, 1962
    Rhonda Vincent is born in Kirksville, Missouri. She emerges as a major bluegrass talent in the 1990s and 2000s, and contributes to the Grammy-winning country album "Lovin', Livin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers"
    Aug 18, 1962
    Fiddler Jimmy Mattingly is born in Leitchfield, Kentucky. A longtime member of Garth Brooks' band, Stillwater, he backs Dolly Parton and Dierks Bentley on albums and becomes a founding member of the bluegrass band The Grascals
    Sep 24, 1962
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs record "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett," the theme for the CBS sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies," at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio on Music Row in Nashville
    Sep 26, 1962
    "The Beverly Hillbillies" debuts on CBS-TV, with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs performing the theme song
    Oct 12, 1962
    Columbia releases Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett"
    Dec 8, 1962
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs play New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall with Merle Travis. They lace their set with "Wildwood Flower," "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" and "Gotta Travel On," among other titles. The show is released as an album, "Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall"



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