The 1950s are generally regarded as a "golden age" of bluegrass scene. Stylistically, it developed over the 1940s in the foundations established only a little, but expanded the scene and several new artists joined the "founding fathers" as Bill Monroe , Lester Flatt , Earl Scruggs and Stanley Brothers .
Jimmy Martin (not to be confused with the Luxembourg pop singer and guitarist of Faith no more ), the self-proclaimed King of Bluegrass began, like many other bluegrass performers, his career in 1949 as a member of Monroe's Blue Grass Boys before a few years later fell out with Monroe. First he played a few songs with the Osborne Brothers (which acquired in the course of the bluegrass revival of the post-psychedelic late sixties better known) before 1955 he formed his own band, the Sunny Mountain Boys founded. These took He also the following title: Ocean of Diamonds (1958):
Another brother pairs (next to the Osborne - Stanley - Louvin brothers, etc.) were Jim & Jesse McReynolds from Carfax, Virginia, here with the Hank Williams cover Let the spirit descend (1959):
No brothers, but one of the more successful Bluegrass duo of the 1950s and early 1960s, were Don Reno Red Smiley and , for example with the Song I'm the talk of the town (1953, here in a TV recording from 1957):
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