All the Classic Releases 1937-1949

Tracklist

• CD 1: The Monroe Brothers 1936: Charlotte, North Carolina
• 1
  My Long Journey Home
  2:28
• 2
  What Is Home Without Love
  2:56
• 3
  What Would You Give in Exchange?
  3:10
• 4
  Little Red Shoes
  2:58
• 5
  Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy
  2:12
• 6
  On Some Foggy Mountain Top
  2:15
• 7
  Drifting Too Far From the Shore
  3:19
• 8
  In My Dear Old Southern Home
  2:26
• 9
  New River Train
  3:36
• 10
  This World Is Not My Home
  2:37
• 11
  Watermelon Hangin' on That Vine
  2:13
• 12
  On the Banks of the Ohio
  3:27
• 13
  Do You Call That Religion?
  2:17
• 14
  God Holds the Future in His Hands
  2:35
• 15
  You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley
  2:12
• 16
  Six Months Ain't Long
  3:11
• 17
  Just a Song of Old Kentucky
  2:18
• 18
  Don't Forget Me
  2:36
• 19
  I'm Going
  2:07
• 20
  Darling Corey
  2:08
• 21
  My Savior's Train
  2:53
• 22
  I Am Thinking Tonight of the Old Folks
  2:27
• 23
  Dreamed I Searched Heaven for You
  2:51
• 24
  The Old Cross Road
  2:35
• 25
  The Forgotten Soldier Boy
  2:41
• 26
  We Read of a Place That's Called Heaven
  2:38
• 27
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  2:24
• 28
  The Saints Go Marching In
  2:51
• 29
  Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
  2:26
• 30
  Where Is My Sailor Boy?
  2:45
• CD 2: The Monroe Brothers 1937-1938: Charlotte, North Carolina
• 1
  Am I Ready to Go
  2:46
• 2
  What Would the Profit Be
  2:28
• 3
  Some Glad Day
  2:38
• 4
  I Have Found the Way
  2:19
• 5
  I Am Going That Way
  2:24
• 6
  Kate Cline
  2:18
• 7
  Roll On Buddy
  2:57
• 8
  Weeping Willow Tree
  3:13
• 9
  I'll Live On
  2:15
• 10
  Oh Hide You in the Blood
  2:53
• 11
  What Would You Give in Exchange (Part 2)
  2:57
• 12
  On That Gospel Ship
  2:41
• 13
  What Would You Give in Exchange (Part 3)
  2:55
• 14
  Let Us Be Lovers Again
  2:53
• 15
  All the Good Times Are Passed and Gone
  2:43
• 16
  What Would You Give in Exchange (Part 4)
  2:52
• 17
  On My Way to Glory
  2:04
• 18
  My Last Moving Day
  2:57
• 19
  He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
  3:00
• 20
  Sinner You Better Get Ready
  2:35
• 21
  Have a Feast Here Tonight
  2:17
• 22
  Goodbye Maggie
  3:02
• 23
  Rollin' On
  1:58
• 24
  The Old Man's Story
  2:33
• 25
  I've Still Got Ninety Nine
  3:10
• 26
  Little Joe
  2:27
• 27
  A Beautiful Life
  2:40
• 28
  Pearly Gates
  2:35
• 29
  On My Way Back Home
  2:04
• 30
  When Our Lord Shall Come Again
  2:15
• CD 3: Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys 1940-1946: Atlanta; Chicago
• 1
  Mule Skinner Blues
  2:45
• 2
  No Letter in the Mail
  2:41
• 3
  Cryin' Holy Unto the Lord
  2:30
• 4
  Six White Horses
  3:03
• 5
  Dog House Blues
  3:06
• 6
  I Wonder if You Feel the Way I Do
  2:52
• 7
  Katy Hill
  2:40
• 8
  Tennessee Blues
  2:52
• 9
  Shake My Mother's Hand For Me
  3:06
• 10
  Were You There
  2:48
• 11
  Blue Yodel #7
  2:54
• 12
  The Coupon Song
  2:57
• 13
  Orange Blossom Special
  2:33
• 14
  Honkey Tonk Swing
  2:31
• 15
  In The Pines
  3:24
• 16
  Back Up and Push
  2:49
• 17
  Rocky Road Blues
  2:37
• 18
  Kentucky Waltz
  2:48
• 19
  True Life Blues
  2:50
• 20
  Goodbye Old Pal
  2:43
• 21
  Footprints in the Snow
  2:42
• 22
  Blue Grass Special
  2:31
• 23
  Heavy Traffic Ahead
  2:52
• 24
  Blue Moon of Kentucky
  3:05
• 25
  Toy Heart
  2:46
• CD 4: Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys 1946-1949: Chicago; Nashville
• 1
  Summertime Is Past and Gone
  2:57
• 2
  Mansions For Me
  3:15
• 3
  Mother's Only Sleeping
  3:18
• 4
  Blue Yodel #4
  3:06
• 5
  Will You Be Loving Another Man
  2:54
• 6
  How Will I Explain About You
  2:55
• 7
  Wicked Path Of Sin
  2:41
• 8
  I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky
  2:59
• 9
  It's Mighty Dark To Travel
  2:54
• 10
  I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
  3:01
• 11
  Little Cabin On The Hill
  3:01
• 12
  My Rose of Old Kentucky
  2:57
• 13
  Blue Grass Breakdown
  2:18
• 14
  Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
  2:49
• 15
  The Old Cross Road
  2:43
• 16
  That Home Above
  2:54
• 17
  Remember The Cross
  3:11
• 18
  Little Community Church
  2:47
• 19
  Along About Daybreak
  3:07
• 20
  When You Are Lonely
  2:45
• 21
  Molly And Tenbrooks
  2:46
• 22
  Shine Hallelujah, Shine
  2:33
• 23
  I'm Travellin' On And On
  2:36
• 24
  Can't You Hear Me Calling
  3:19
• 25
  Travelin' This Lonesome Road
  3:12
• 26
  Blue Grass Stomp
  2:56
• 27
  The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band
  3:16

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Release credits

• Art Satherly
  producer [3.18-20, 3.22-25, 4.1-21, 4.24-27]
• Art Wooten
  baritone vocals [9-10], fiddle [11-13, 15-16], lead vocals [13]
• Bill Monroe
  arranger [3], guitar [1, 5], lead vocals [3.1, 3.3, 3.5, 3.9-11, 3.17-18, 3.20-21, 3.23-24, 4.4, 4.12, 4.19, 4.21, 4.27], mandolin [1.1-30, 2.1-30, 4.1-21, 4.24-27, 3.2-4, 3.6-25], tenor vocals [1.1-30, 3.2, 3.6, 3.13, 3.15, 3.19, 3.25, 4.1-3, 4.5-11, 4.14-18, 4.20, 4.24-25, 2.1-16, 2.18-30], vocal [2.17, 1.29]
• Bill Wesbrooks
  double bass [1-2, 4-8, 11, 13-14, 16], guitar [12, 15], lead vocals [12, 15], tenor vocals [3, 9-10]
• Birch Monroe
  bass vocals [7]
• Charlie Monroe
  arranger [3], guitar [2.1-30, 1.1-30], lead vocals [2.1-16, 2.18-30, 1.1-30], vocal [2.17, 1.29]
• Chubby Wise
  fiddle [3.17-25, 4.1-6, 4.8-15, 4.19-21, 4.24-27], guitar [16-18]
• Clyde Moody
  bass vocals [3], guitar [2-4, 6-8], lead vocals [2, 4, 6]
• Curley Bradshaw
  guitar [18, 20-21]
• Earl Scruggs
  banjo [3.23-25, 4.1-6, 4.8-15, 4.19-21], baritone vocals [16-18], bass vocals [16]
• Eli Oberstein
  producer [1.1-30, 2.1-30]
• Howard Watts
  baritone vocals [1, 7, 10, 16], bass vocals [16-18], double bass [4.1-15, 4.19-21, 3.17-25]
• Jack Thompson
  double bass [24-27]
• Lester Flatt
  guitar [3.23-25, 4.1-15, 4.19-21], lead vocals [4.1-3, 4.5-11, 4.14-18, 4.20, 3.25]
• Mac Wiseman
  guitar [24-27], lead vocals [24-25]
• Pete Pyle
  bass vocals [9-10], double bass [12, 15], guitar [9-11, 13-14, 16]
• Rudy Lyle
  banjo [24-27]
• Stringbean
  banjo [17, 19-22]
• Tex Willis
  guitar [17, 19, 21-22], lead vocals [19]
• Tommy Magness
  baritone vocals [3], fiddle [1-2, 4-7]
• Wilene "Sally Ann" Forrester
  accordion [17-22]
• Show all credits (21)

Issues

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  All the Classic Releases 1937-1949

  4x CD
  2003