With his trademark mandolin style and unequaled tenor harmonies; Curly Seckler has carved out a seventy-seven-year career in bluegrass and country music. His foundational work in Flatt and Scruggss Foggy Mountain Boys secured him a place in bluegrass history; while his role in The Nashville Grass made him an essential part of the musics triumphant 1970s revival. Written in close collaboration with Mr. Seckler and those who know him; Foggy Mountain Troubadour is the first full-length biography of an American original. Penny Parsons follows a journey from North Carolina schoolhouses to the Grand Ole Opry stage and the Bluegrass Hall of Fame; from boarding houses to radio studios and traveling five to a car on two-lane roads to make the next show. Throughout; she captures the warm humor; hard choices; and vivid details of a brilliant artists life as he crisscrosses a nation and a century making music.
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