If you know how to play the banjo, you’ve probably learned how to play “Foggy Mountain Breakdown.” The same goes for students of guitar, violin, mandolin, and more—the song has become a ...

The national anthem at Saturday's 49ers-Packers playoff game will be followed by the faint tinkling of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" on banjo, and a Candlestick Park tradition will notch its 30th year.

He played banjo and sang, showing off his range ... He came back later on for the “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” performance and stuck around to play mandolin during “Passin’ Through.” ...

Country Music Hall of Fame member Scruggs' Gibson RB-Granada Mastertone banjo -- heard on his 1950 composition "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," played alongside Lester Flatt and the Foggy Mountain Boys ...

As I sit here listening to him ripping through his legendary bluegrass instrumental "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," it's hard ... to him that practically every banjo player plays "Scruggs style ...

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC, "FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN") BLOCK: Well, my memory of Earl Scruggs, who died yesterday at age 88, is linked to a fine day in 2003 when he and his banjo came by our studios.

Something I can be more creative with would be the banjo. [music] NS: You reach back into the Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, the sound, Earl, when you do “Earl's Breakdown.” ...

CHARLOTTE OBSERVER FILE PHOTO This excerpt from “Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown ... the foremost practitioner of five-string banjo. While still in elementary school in Boiling ...