CMH RECORDS (Country. Music. Heritage.) supports Classic Country and Bluegrass albums and is honoring several of these legacy releases by remastering them and making them available in new formats for the first time.
The latest in this series of releases, Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass’ Heaven’s Bluegrass Band, will be out on CD and digital formats March 15th, 2024. This album, recorded over 30 years into the artist’s career, is the ensemble’s first of five for CMH. Ahead of the release, the track “Great Big Woman” is out now.
On Heaven’s Bluegrass Band, Flatt is joined by an all-star ensemble featuring Curly Seckler, Marty Stuart, and Paul Warren, among others. Released in 1976, this album presents some of the most authentic Bluegrass Gospel recordings of the era. Subjects include “love, life, death and heartbreak.”
Lester Flatt is a name familiar Bluegrass fans due to his work with Earl Scruggs as Flatt and Scruggs helped lay the groundwork for Bluegrass music. Together the two were inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 1985 and 1991 respectively.
After Flatt and Scruggs went their separate ways in 1969, Flatt formed the essential ensemble Nashville Grass. With this group of Nashville’s finest, Flatt cut seven records. CMH had the honor of releasing five of these classic records during the final years of the artist’s life.
Track List for Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass’ Heaven’s Bluegrass Band:
- Dixie Flyer (Instrumental)
- A Home Without Love is Just a House
- Great Big Woman
- The Night Daddy Passed Away
- You Know You Caused It All By Telling Lies
- The House of Bottles and Cans
- Heaven’s Bluegrass Band
- Ten Years of Heartaches
- Love Me Lorena (Instrumental)
- Gone With the Delta Queen
- I’m Gonna Sit Down Beside My Jesus
