Editing Lester Flatt (section)

==Death and legacy==
Flatt died of heart failure in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 64.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/12/archives/lester-flatt-singer-and-guitarist-in-duo-with-earl-scruggs-dies.html |title=Lester Flatt, Singer and Guitarist in Duo With Earl Scruggs, Dies |first=John |last=Rockwell |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=26 |date=May 12, 1979}}</ref>

He was posthumously inducted into the [[Country Music Hall of Fame]] in 1985 along with Scruggs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://countrymusichalloffame.org/Inductees/InducteeDetail/flatt-and-scruggs |title=Flatt and Scruggs |website=[[Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum]] |access-date=August 15, 2016}}</ref> Flatt was also posthumously inducted as an inaugural member of the [[International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor]] in 1991.

Lester's hometown of [[Sparta, Tennessee]], held a bluegrass festival in his honor for a number of years, before being discontinued a few years prior to the death of the traditional host, resident Everette Paul England; Lester Flatt Memorial Bluegrass Day remains part of the annual Liberty Square Celebration held in Sparta.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eastpublicrelations.com/lester_flatt_memorial_bluegrass.htm |title=Lester Flatt Memorial Bluegrass Day |website=East Public Relations |date=September 29, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205192520/http://www.eastpublicrelations.com/lester_flatt_memorial_bluegrass.htm |archive-date=December 5, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

Flatt and Scruggs were ranked No. 24 on [[Country Music Television|CMT]]'s 40 Greatest Men of Country Music in 2003.