Five Classic Albums plus Bonus Singles

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Cry Cry Darling
  2:22
• 2
  Roane County Prison
  3:10
• 3
  Goodbye Old Pal
  2:05
• 4
  Out In The Cold World
  2:35
• 5
  A Good Womans Love
  2:20
• 6
  In Despair
  2:16
• 7
  Come Back To Me In My Dreams
  2:25
• 8
  A Lonesome Road
  2:40
• 9
  Sally-Jo
  2:39
• 10
  Brand New Shoes
  2:12
• 11
  Molly And Tenbrooks
  2:22
• 12
  I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World
  2:18
• 13
  I Saw The Light
  2:30
• 14
  I'll Meet You In The Morning
  2:12
• 15
  Lifes Railway To Heaven
  2:49
• 16
  Lord Lead Me On
  2:26
• 17
  Wayfaring Stranger
  3:06
• 18
  A Beautiful Life
  2:26
• CD 2
• 1
  Precious Memories
  3:16
• 2
  House of Gold
  2:08
• 3
  I've Found a Hiding Place
  3:27
• 4
  Jesus, Hold My Hand
  2:25
• 5
  I Am A Pilgrim
  2:34
• 6
  Lord Build Me a Cabin in Glory
  2:04
• 7
  Linda Lou
  2:09
• 8
  Little Joe
  2:58
• 9
  Seven Year Blues
  3:05
• 10
  You Live in a World All Your Own
  2:22
• 11
  Time Changes Everything
  2:15
• 12
  Bluegrass Part 1
  2:45
• 13
  Big River
  2:11
• 14
  Flowers of Love
  3:03
• 15
  It's Mighty Dark to Travel
  2:02
• 16
  Sold Down the River
  2:28
• 17
  Put My Rubber Doll Away
  3:01
• 18
  Lonesome Road Blues
  2:27
• CD 3
• 1
  Little Maggie
  2:32
• 2
  Bugle Call Rag
  2:39
• 3
  Toy Heart
  2:13
• 4
  I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky
  2:22
• 5
  Live and Let Live
  2:39
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Nine Pound Hammer
  2:17
• 7
  Cotton Fields
  2:30
• 8
  John Hardy
  2:41
• 9
  Shady Grove
  1:42
• 10
  Danny Boy
  2:35
• 11
  Journey's End
  2:49
• 12
  Old Joe Clark
  2:22
• 13
  Let the Light Shine Down on Me
  1:57
• 14
  Wait a Little Longer, Please Jesus
  2:39
• 15
  Put My Little Shoes Away
  2:32
• 16
  Wheel Hoss
  2:20
• 17
  On and On
  2:48
• 18
  I Believed in You, Darling
  2:37
• 19
  Sitting Alone in the Moonlight
  2:28
• 20
  You'll Find Her Name Written There
  2:50
• CD 4
• 1
  Gotta Travel On
  2:33
• 2
  Four Walls
  2:20
• 3
  Roanoke
  2:38
• 4
  Uncle Pen
  2:43
• 5
  Y'all Come
  2:16
• 6
  Happy On My Way
  2:10
• 7
  Blue Moon of Kentucky
  2:06
• 8
  New Mule Skinner Blues
  2:29
• 9
  Cheyenne
  2:50
• 10
  A Fallen Star
  2:10
• 11
  Plant Some Flowers on My Grave
  2:39
• 12
  Footprints in the Snow
  2:41
• 13
  Panhandle Country
  2:05
• 14
  Scotland
  1:53
• 15
  No One But My Darlin'
  2:04
• 16
  Tomorrow I'll Be Gone
  1:56
• 17
  Dark as the Night, Blue as the Day
  2:29
• 18
  Lonesome Wind Blues
  2:09
• 19
  Come Go With Me
  2:45

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Release credits

• Benny Martin
  fiddle [18]
• Benny Williams
  baritone vocals [9], fiddle [5-6, 9], guitar [7, 10-11]
• Bessie Lee Mauldin
  double bass [2.1-11, 2.16-18, 1.1-18, 3.1-12, 4.1-2, 4.10, 4.13-19]
• Bill Monroe
  lead vocals [3.1, 3.3-7, 3.9-11, 3.14-15, 3.20, 2.2-3, 2.5, 2.7-11, 2.13-18, 4.1-2, 4.4-5, 4.7-8, 4.10-12, 4.15-19, 1.1-12, 1.14-15, 1.15, 1.17], mandolin [2.1-18, 1.1-17, 1.17-18, 3.1-20, 4.1-19], tenor vocals [3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.9, 3.13-14, 3.17-19, 1.6, 1.13-15, 1.15-17, 1.17-18, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.6, 4.4, 4.6]
• Bobby Hicks
  bass vocals [13-14], fiddle [3.14, 3.16, 3.20, 4.1, 4.3, 4.9, 4.13-17]
• Bobby Joe Lester
  fiddle [2, 7-8, 10-12], lead vocals [7]
• Buddy Killen
  double bass [13-14]
• Buddy Spicher
  fiddle [1, 3-4, 7, 10-11]
• Carl Butler
  guitar [7-18]
• Charles Smith
  fiddle [16-17]
• Charlie Cline
  baritone vocals [3.13-14, 3.17-18, 4.6], fiddle [3.14-20, 4.3, 4.5, 4.7, 4.9, 4.11-12]
• Culley Holt
  bass vocals [1.14-15, 1.17, 1.17-18, 2.1, 2.3-5], double bass [1.15, 1.17, 2.3-4]
• Curtis McPeake
  banjo [2.7-18, 3.1, 3.3-6, 3.9]
• Dale Potter
  fiddle [1.1-7, 1.11-12, 2.7-18, 4.10, 4.18-19]
• Don Stover
  banjo [4.2, 4.10, 1.1-7, 1.11-12], lead vocals [6]
• Doug Kershaw
  guitar [8-10]
• Edd Mayfield
  guitar [2.1-6, 3.15, 1.13-17, 1.17-18, 4.7, 4.13-14], lead vocals [1.13-15, 1.15-17, 1.17-18, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.6], tenor vocals [5]
• Ernie Newton
  double bass [4.3, 4.5-7, 4.9, 4.11-12, 3.15-20]
• Gordon Terry
  bass vocals [1.13, 1.16, 2.6], fiddle [1.1-7, 1.11-12, 3.15, 4.2, 4.7, 4.10]
• Grady Martin
  guitar [4.5, 4.11, 3.19]
• Harold Bradley
  producer [13-14]
• Hubert Davis
  banjo [3.16, 3.20, 4.3, 4.9]
• Jack Cooke
  guitar [1, 15-19]
• Jackie Phelps
  guitar [4.3, 4.9, 3.13-14, 3.16, 3.20], lead vocals [13-14]
• Jim Smoak
  banjo [15]
• Jimmy Elrod
  banjo [8-10]
• Jimmy Martin
  guitar [3.17-19, 4.4-6, 4.8, 4.11-12], lead vocals [4.4, 4.6, 3.17-19]
• Jimmy Maynard
  guitar [1-6, 8-9, 12], lead vocals [3, 5, 9]
• Joe Drumright
  banjo [13-14, 18-19]
• Joe Stuart
  baritone vocals [6], fiddle [1.2-4, 1.6-11, 4.10], guitar [1.1, 1.5, 1.12, 4.2, 4.10]
• Joel Price
  baritone vocals [4], double bass [4, 8]
• Kenny Baker
  baritone vocals [1.13-17, 1.17-18, 2.1, 2.3-6], fiddle [4.13-14, 1.8-10]
• Leslie Sandy
  guitar [1.2-4, 1.6-7, 1.11, 4.10]
• Merle "Red" Taylor
  fiddle [4.4, 4.7, 3.15]
• Milton Estes
  bass vocals [6]
• Owen Bradley
  organ [2.1-2, 1.15, 1.17], producer [1.13-18, 3.1-12, 2.1-18, 4.1, 4.15-19]
• Paul Cohen
  producer [1.1-12, 3.13-20, 4.2-6, 4.9-12]
• Robert Lee Pennington
  banjo [1, 15-17]
• Rudy Lyle
  banjo [3.17-19, 4.4-5, 4.8, 4.11]
• Sonny Osborne
  banjo [12]
• Tommy Jackson
  fiddle [4.2, 4.10, 1.1, 1.5, 1.12]
• Tony Ellis
  banjo [2, 7-8, 10-12], baritone vocals [7], double bass [12-15]
• Vassar Clements
  fiddle [4.8, 3.1, 3.3-4]
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