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In this article, I may question whether or not Lester actually invented that run, but no one can argue with the fact that he gave it its biggest audience when he played it week after week on live appearances and on most Saturday nights on WSM’s Grand Ole Opry. The Blue Grass Boys may have kidded Lester about his little run, but Lester’s G run is no laughing matter to died-in-the-wool fans of traditional bluegrass.
That “something” was Lester’s signature guitar run. That’s about the truth, because we’d be going so fast, he’d just hit one string here and there and then every chance he’d get, why he’d run something in there. I accused him of doing it just to let people know that he was still there. I remember that Lester always had a funny run on the guitar, and we used to kid about that run. I had met Lester when he was working with Charlie, so I was glad he was with Bill.
So he left Charlie and went with Bill at the Grand Ole Opry. He’d been singing tenor with Charlie Monroe. He’d been with Bill for two or three weeks. Lester had just started working with Bill when I joined the band. In a 1976 interview here is how Jim explained it: In the mid-seventies, I was lucky enough to become friends with the legendary fiddler Jim Shumate, who joined in Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in 1945 just weeks after Lester Flatt joined the band. It more or less punctuates the song and serves the same purpose as an exclamation point at the end of a paragraph. It consists of playing the D string of the guitar at the second fret followed by the G string open. In its original form, it is basically a two-note run that is played at the end of a verse or chorus. You can hear this distinctive guitar run in practically every traditional bluegrass song that can be played on the guitar using a G shape chord. One of his most lasting achievements was the G run that bears his name. Bluegrass hero Lester Flatt had a lot to be proud of.
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