Breaking Out belongs to the wave of late Flatt and Scruggs Columbia releases bracketing the duo's 1969 dissolution — the records Columbia compiled and pushed out during a period when Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were openly pulling in different musical directions. Columbia's pressure toward folk-revival and contemporary material was straining the partnership, and the late LPs read partly as documentary of that strain. Flatt would form the Nashville Grass that same year, taking Foggy Mountain Boys stalwarts Paul Warren, Josh Graves, and Jake Tullock with him to maintain the traditional bluegrass sound he had defended within the partnership; Scruggs would launch the Earl Scruggs Revue with his sons. Breaking Out is a late-period document of the working band in its closing months.
Tracklist
- 1 Foggy Mountain Rock (with The Foggy Mountain Boys) - 78rpm Version 2:18
- 2 That Old Book Of Mine 2:46
- 3 Come Back Darling alt version 2:39
- 4 Iron Curtain (with The Foggy Mountain Boys) 2:44
- 5 The Great Historical Bum (with The Foggy Mountain Boys) 2:11
- 6 Polka on a Banjo 2:47
- 7 Six White Horses alt version 3:05
- 8 Handsome Molly alt version 2:05
- 9 Rambling Gambler (with The Foggy Mountain Boys) 3:03
- 10 Mama Don't Allow It (with The Foggy Mountain Boys) 2:29
- 11 Po' Rebel Soldier (with The Foggy Mountain Boys) 2:08