1948–1959 - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs

1948–1959

Compilation by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs

Released 1991

Tracklist

CD 1
1
God Loves His Children
2:42
2
I’m Going to Make Heaven My Home
2:39
3
We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart
2:43
4
My Cabin in Caroline
2:38
5
Baby Blue Eyes
2:59
6
Bouquet in Heaven
2:52
7
Down the Road
2:41
8
Why Don’t You Tell Me So?
2:41
9
I’ll Never Shed Another Tear
2:27
10
No Mother or Dad
2:44
11
Is It Too Late Now!
2:39
12
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
2:41
4.0 ★
13
I’ll Be Going to Heaven Sometime
2:34
14
So Happy I’ll Be
2:31
15
My Little Girl in Tennessee
2:43
16
I’ll Never Love Another
3:02
17
Doin’ My Time
2:49
18
Pike County Breakdown
2:45
19
Cora Is Gone
2:24
20
Preachin’, Prayin’, Singin’
2:25
21
Pain in My Heart
2:47
22
Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms
2:39
23
Back to the Cross
2:55
24
Farewell Blues
2:29
25
Old Salty Dog Blues
2:30
26
Take Me in a Lifeboat
2:15
27
Will the Roses Bloom
2:34
28
I’ll Just Pretend
2:28
CD 2
1
Come Back Darling
2:41
2
I’m Head Over Heels in Love
2:38
3
I’m Waiting to Hear You Call Me Darling
2:50
4
The Old Home Town
2:55
5
I’ll Stay Around
2:34
6
We Can’t Be Darlings Anymore
2:45
7
Jimmie Brown, the Newsboy
2:44
8
Somehow Tonight
2:50
9
Don’t Get Above Your Raising
2:43
10
I’m Working on a Road
2:50
11
He Took Your Place
2:49
12
I’ve Lost You
2:53
13
’Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
2:57
14
I’m Gonna Settle Down
2:56
15
Earl’s Breakdown
3:01
3.0 ★
16
I’m Lonesome and Blue
2:49
17
Over the Hills to the Poorhouse
2:56
18
My Darling’s Last Goodbye
2:39
19
Get in Line Brother
2:23
20
Brother, I’m Getting Ready to Go
2:43
21
Why Did You Wander?
2:45
22
Flint Hill Special
2:47
3.0 ★
23
Thinking About You
2:48
24
If I Should Wander Back Tonight
2:42
25
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
2:55
26
Dear Old Dixie
2:30
CD 3
1
Reunion in Heaven
2:54
2
Pray for the Boys
2:49
3
I’ll Go Stepping Too
2:53
4
I’d Rather Be Alone
2:46
5
Foggy Mountain Chimes
2:18
6
Someone Took My Place With You
2:51
7
Mother Prays Loud in Her Sleep
3:17
8
That Old Book of Mine
2:43
9
Your Love Is Like a Flower
2:36
10
Be Ready for Tomorrow May Never Come
2:41
11
Till the End of the World Rolls Around
2:36
12
You’re Not a Drop in the Bucket
2:30
13
Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky
3:07
14
Foggy Mountain Special
2:04
3.0 ★
15
You Can Feel It in Your Soul
2:30
16
Old Fashioned Preacher
2:40
17
Before I Met You
2:38
18
I’m Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open
2:38
19
Randy Lynn Rag
2:05
20
On My Mind
2:47
21
Blue Ridge Cabin Home
2:56
22
Some Old Day
2:31
23
It Won’t Be Long
2:32
24
No Mother in This World
2:50
25
Gone Home
2:28
26
Bubbling in My Soul
2:23
27
Joy Bells
2:25
28
What’s Good for You
2:41
CD 4
1
No Doubt About It
2:33
2
Who Will Sing for Me
2:31
3
Give Mother My Crown
2:51
4
Six White Horses
2:43
5
Shuckin’ the Corn
2:03
6
I’ll Take the Blame
2:18
7
Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
2:08
8
A Hundred Years From Now
2:11
9
Give Me the Flowers While I’m Living
2:24
10
Is There Room for Me
2:20
11
I’ll Take the Blame
2:17
12
Let Those Brown Eyes Smile at Me
2:14
13
I’ll Never Shed Another Tear
2:28
14
I Won’t Be Hanging Around
2:12
15
I Don’t Care Anymore
2:40
16
Big Black Train
2:27
17
Mama’s and Daddy’s Little Girl
2:22
18
Crying Alone
2:47
19
A Million Years in Glory
2:33
20
Heaven
2:37
21
Building on Sand
2:33
22
Jesus Savior Pilot Me
2:08
23
Crying My Heart Out Over You
2:36
24
Ground Speed
2:11
25
Who Knows Right From Wrong
2:22
26
Iron Curtain
2:41
27
Cabin on the Hill
2:29
28
Someone You Have Forgotten
2:42
29
Foggy Mountain Rock
2:23
30
You Put Me on My Feet
2:03

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Release credits

Art Wooten
fiddle [5-8]
Benny Martin
bass vocals [1], fiddle [3.3-6, 3.6-10, 2.21-26], vocal [2]
Benny Sims
double bass [23, 27], fiddle [1.9-19, 1.21-22, 1.24-26, 1.28, 2.1-6], vocal [20, 25]
Bob Moore
bass [6], double bass [3-10, 23-26]
Chet Atkins
guitar [23-26]
Chubby Wise
fiddle [2.7-12, 3.14]
Culley Holt
vocal [27-28]
Curley Lambert
vocal [27-28]
Curly Seckler
guitar [23-26], mandolin [2.1-6, 2.21-26, 1.5-19, 1.21-22, 1.24-26, 1.28, 4.1-18, 3.3-6, 3.6-15, 3.17-22, 3.27-28], tenor vocals [2.3, 3.1, 3.21-23], vocal [4.1-3, 4.7, 4.9-13, 4.15, 4.19-23, 4.25, 3.2-4, 3.7-11, 3.11-13, 3.15-18, 3.24-28, 1.6, 1.8-10, 1.13-15, 1.20-23, 1.25-27, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-6, 2.21, 2.23, 2.25]
Don Law
producer [3.19-28, 4.1-30]
Earl Scruggs
banjo [1.3-12, 1.15-19, 1.21-28, 4.1-8, 4.11-18, 4.21-26, 4.28-30, 3.3-6, 3.6-14, 3.16-22, 3.24, 3.26-28, 2.1-6, 2.8-26], baritone vocals [2.10, 2.20, 3.1, 3.23], guitar [1.1-2, 1.13-14, 1.20, 4.9-10, 4.20, 4.27, 2.7, 3.1-2, 3.15, 3.23, 3.25], lead vocals [3], vocal [2.3, 2.10, 2.19-21, 2.23, 2.25, 3.2, 3.4, 3.7, 3.11, 3.13, 3.15-18, 3.24-27, 1.1-2, 1.13-14, 1.20, 1.22-23, 1.25-26, 4.2-3, 4.7, 4.9-13, 4.19-23, 4.25, 4.27]
Eddie Hill
guitar [15-18, 18]
Ernie Newton
double bass [19-22]
Everett Lilly
fiddle [16], lead vocals [10], mandolin [7-15, 17-20], tenor vocals [10, 20], vocal [8, 10-14, 16-20]
Harold Bradley
guitar [3.27-28, 4.1-2]
Howard Watts
double bass [1.1-16, 4.4-6], vocal [6, 8, 13-14]
Howdy Forrester
fiddle [13-20]
Hylo Brown
double bass [11-14], guitar [27-30]
Ike Inman
double bass [15-18]
Jack Shook
guitar [19-22]
Jake Tullock
bass [11, 13, 18], double bass [3.11-18, 4.19-26], guitar [27-30], vocal [3.12, 4.27-28]
Jim Shumate
fiddle [3-4]
Jody Rainwater
bass [2-4, 10, 20, 25], bass vocals [10, 20], double bass [3.1, 2.1-26, 1.17-22, 1.24-26, 1.28], mandolin [17-19, 23, 27], vocal [10, 19-20]
Joe Zinkan
double bass [27-30]
Josh Graves
resonator guitar [4.1-30, 3.19-28]
Junior Huskey
double bass [7-10]
Lester Flatt
baritone vocals [3], guitar [1.1-28, 3.1-6, 3.6-13, 3.13-18, 3.18-28, 4.1-30, 2.1-3, 2.3-4, 2.4-20, 2.20-25, 2.25-26], lead vocals [2.7, 2.20, 3.1, 3.9, 3.20-23], vocal [2.1-6, 2.8-14, 2.16-21, 2.23-25, 1.1-11, 1.13-17, 1.19-23, 1.26-28, 3.2-4, 3.6, 3.6-8, 3.10-11, 3.11-13, 3.15-18, 3.24-28, 4.1-4, 4.6-23, 4.25-28, 4.30]
Louie Innis
guitar [3-6, 6-13, 13-14]
Mac Wiseman
guitar [3-4], vocal [1-3]
Onie Wheeler
double bass [3.27-28, 4.1-3]
Paul Warren
bass vocals [23], fiddle [3.11-13, 3.16-24, 3.26, 3.28, 4.1, 4.3-18, 4.23-26, 4.28-30], vocal [4.2-3, 4.7, 4.9-10, 4.12, 4.19-22, 4.27-28, 3.15-16, 3.25-27]
Ray Edenton
guitar [4-6]

Issues

1
1948–1959
4x CD
1991