About This Song
About "Flint Hill Special (Instrumental)" by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs And The Stanley Brothers
An instrumental showcase for Scruggs's banjo, 'Flint Hill Special' is a locomotive of rolling triplets and syncopated fire. No words needed: the title evokes a hardscrabble place, and the picking conjures sparks flying off a flint wheel, all tension and release.