The Essential Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys: 1945–1949

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Rocky Road Blues
  2:36
• 2
  Kentucky Waltz
  2:44
• 3
  True Life Blues
  2:50
• 4
  Nobody Loves Me
  4:11
• 5
  Goodbye Old Pal
  2:25
• 6
  Footprints in the Snow
  2:39
• 7
  Blue Grass Special
  2:26
• 8
  Come Back to Me in My Dreams
  3:00
• 9
  Heavy Traffic Ahead
  2:51
• 10
  Why Did You Wander
  2:34
• 11
  Blue Moon of Kentucky
  3:03
• 12
  Toy Heart
  2:46
• 13
  Summertime Is Past and Gone
  2:55
• 14
  Mansions for Me
  3:16
• 15
  Mother’s Only Sleeping
  3:16
• 16
  Blue Yodel No. 4
  3:06
• 17
  Will You Be Loving Another Man?
  2:53
• 18
  How Will I Explain About You?
  2:57
• 19
  Shining Path
  2:26
• 20
  Wicked Path of Sin
  2:54
• CD 2
• 1
  I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky
  3:15
• 2
  It’s Mighty Dark to Travel
  2:52
• 3
  I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling
  2:58
• 4
  Little Cabin on the Hill
  3:11
• 5
  My Rose of Old Kentucky
  2:57
• 6
  Blue Grass Breakdown
  2:40
• 7
  Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
  3:35
• 8
  The Old Cross Road
  2:42
• 9
  That Home Above
  3:50
• 10
  Remember the Cross
  3:03
• 11
  Little Community Church
  2:45
• 12
  Along About Daybreak
  3:08
• 13
  When You Are Lonely
  2:46
• 14
  Molly and Tenbrooks
  2:44
• 15
  Shine Hallelujah Shine
  2:34
• 16
  I’m Traveling On and On
  2:36
• 17
  Can’t You Hear Me Calling
  3:48
• 18
  Travelin’ This Lonesome Road
  3:25
• 19
  Blue Grass Stomp
  3:00
• 20
  The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band
  3:12

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Release credits

• Art Satherly
  producer [1.3-4, 1.8-20, 2.1-20]
• Bill Barnes
  design
• Bill Johnson
  art direction
• Bill Monroe
  lead vocals [1.1-2, 1.4-6, 1.8-9, 1.11, 1.16, 2.5, 2.12, 2.14, 2.20], mandolin, tenor vocals [1.3, 1.10, 1.12-15, 1.17-20, 2.1-4, 2.7-11, 2.13, 2.16-18], vocal [15]
• Birch Monroe
  bass vocals [20], double bass [19]
• Chubby Wise
  fiddle [1.1-18, 2.1-8, 2.12-14, 2.17-20], guitar [9-11, 15-16]
• Curley Bradshaw
  guitar [2, 5-6, 8]
• David Mitson
  re
• Earl Scruggs
  banjo [2.1-8, 2.12-14, 1.9-18], baritone vocals [2.9-11, 2.16, 1.20], bass vocals [2.9, 1.19], vocal [15]
• Gary Pacheco
  task
• Howard Watts
  baritone vocals [2.3, 2.9, 1.13, 1.19], bass vocals [9-11, 16], double bass [2.1-8, 2.12-14, 1.1-18, 1.20], vocal [15]
• Jack Thompson
  double bass [17-20]
• Lawrence Cohn
  producer
• Lester Flatt
  guitar [1.9-20, 2.1-8, 2.12-14], lead vocals [1.10, 1.12-15, 1.17-20, 2.1-4, 2.7-11, 2.13, 2.16], vocal [15]
• Mac Wiseman
  guitar [17-20], lead vocals [17-18]
• Rich Bauer
  task
• Rollow Welch
  art direction
• Rudy Lyle
  banjo [17-20]
• Stringbean
  banjo [1, 3-8]
• Tex Willis
  baritone vocals [4, 8], guitar [1, 3-4, 6-7], lead vocals [3]
• Wesley Ligon
  design
• Wilene "Sally Ann" Forrester
  accordion [1-8], tenor vocals [4, 8]
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Issues

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  The Essential Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys: 1945–1949

  2x CD
  1992