Lester Flatt

Lester Raymond Flatt June 19 1914 May 11 1979 was an American bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in The Foggy Mountain Boys popularly known as Flatt and Scruggs Flatts career spanned multiple decades breaking out as a member of Bill Monroes band during the 1940s and including multiple solo and collaboration works exclusive of Scruggs He first reached a mainstream audience through his performance on The Ballad of Jed Clampett the theme for the network television hit The Beverly Hillbillies in the early 1960s From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia