Foggy Mountain Breakdown

About Foggy Mountain Breakdown

"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" is a bluegrass music instrumental by the bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs. It is used (anachronistically) as background music in the 1967 motion picture Bonnie and Clyde, especially in the car chase scenes, and has been used in a similar manner in many other films and television programs, particularly when depicting a pursuit scene in a rural setting. It was written by Earl Scruggs and recorded in 1949 by Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, with Scruggs playing a Gibson Granada five-string banjo. .

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About this song

Credited to

Flatt & Scruggs

Album

Town and Country · Track 1 of 12 · Opens the album

Released

September 12, 1965

Duration

2:20

Ranking

#1 most played Flatt & Scruggs track on Foxsoundi

On Last.fm

24,863 listeners on Last.fm

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From the album: Town and Country