Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Trilogy

Tracklist

• CD 1: Will The Circle Be Unbroken
• 1
  Grand Ole Opry Song
  3:11
• 2
  Keep on the Sunny Side
  4:27
• 3
  Nashville Blues
  3:15
  5.0 ★
• 4
  You Are My Flower
  3:35
• 5
  The Precious Jewel
  4:10
• 6
  Dark as a Dungeon
  2:46
• 7
  Tennessee Stud
  4:47
• 8
  Black Mountain Rag
  2:40
• 9
  Wreck on the Highway
  3:25
• 10
  The End of the World
  3:54
• 11
  I Saw the Light
  4:20
• 12
  Sunny Side of the Mountain
  2:52
• 13
  Nine Pound Hammer
  2:52
• 14
  Losin' You (Might Be the Best Thing)
  2:49
• 15
  Honky Tonkin'
  2:26
• 16
  You Don't Know My Mind
  2:45
• 17
  My Walkin' Shoes
  2:49
• CD 2: Will The Circle Be Unbroken
• 1
  Lonesome Fiddle Blues
  2:43
• 2
  Cannonball Rag
  1:16
• 3
  Avalanche
  2:52
• 4
  Flint Hill Special
  2:13
• 5
  Togary Mountain
  2:28
• 6
  Earl's Breakdown
  2:37
• 7
  Orange Blossom Special
  2:12
• 8
  Wabash Cannonball
  2:03
• 9
  Lost Highway
  3:48
• 10
  Doc Watson & Merle Travis: First Meeting (Dialogue)
  1:52
• 11
  Way Downtown
  3:35
• 12
  Down Yonder
  3:45
• 13
  Pins and Needles (In My Heart)
  2:54
• 14
  Honky Tonk Blues
  2:23
• 15
  Sailin' On to Hawaii
  2:09
• 16
  I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
  4:26
• 17
  I Am a Pilgrim
  3:54
• 18
  Wildwood Flower
  3:33
• 19
  Soldier's Joy
  3:33
• 20
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  4:48
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Both Sides Now
  2:25
• 22
  Foggy Mountain Breakdown
  2:39
• 23
  Warming Up for "The Opry" (talk)
  2:43
• 24
  Sunny Side (talk)
  4:06
• 25
  Remember Me
  1:31
• CD 3: Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume II
• 1
  Life's Railway to Heaven
  4:38
• 2
  Grandpa Was a Carpenter
  3:24
• 3
  When I Get My Rewards
  4:25
• 4
  Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan
  3:56
• 5
  Little Mountain Church House
  3:32
• 6
  And So It Goes
  3:54
• 7
  When It's Gone
  2:34
• 8
  Mary Danced With Soldiers
  3:07
• 9
  Riding Alone
  3:09
• 10
  I'm Sittin' on Top of the World
  3:08
• 11
  Lovin' on the Side
  2:57
• 12
  Lost River
  3:26
• 13
  Bayou Jubilee
  3:01
• 14
  Blues Berry Hill
  3:26
• 15
  Turn of the Century
  3:39
• 16
  One Step Over the Line

  feat. Rosanne Cash & John Hiatt
  4:30
• 17
  You Ain't Going Nowhere
  3:53
• 18
  The Valley Road
  4:13
• 19
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  5:39
• 20
  Amazing Grace
  1:48
• CD 4: Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume III
• 1
  Take Me in Your Lifeboat

  feat. Del McCoury, Robbie McCoury & Ronnie McCoury
  3:41
• 2
  Milk Cow Blues

  feat. Doc Watson, Richard Watson & Josh Graves
  5:04
• 3
  I Find Jesus
  3:54
• 4
  Hold Watcha Got

  feat. Jimmy Martin
  2:55
• 5
  Mama's Opry

  feat. Iris DeMent
  4:23
• 6
  Diamonds in the Rough

  feat. June Carter Cash & Earl Scruggs
  3:39
• 7
  Lonesome River

  feat. Sam Bush
  4:23
• 8
  Some Dark Holler

  feat. Dwight Yoakam
  3:19
• 9
  The Lowlands

  feat. Jaime Hanna & Jonathan McEuen
  3:50
• 10
  Love, Please Come Home

  feat. Del McCoury, Robbie McCoury & Ronnie McCoury
  2:49
• 11
  Goodnight Irene

  feat. Willie Nelson & Tom Petty
  4:30
• 12
  I Know What It Means to Be Lonesome

  feat. The Nashville Bluegrass Band
  3:49
• 13
  I'll Be Faithful to You

  feat. Emmylou Harris
  2:33
• 14
  Tears in the Holston River

  feat. Johnny Cash
  4:14
• CD 5: Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume III
• 1
  Fishin' Blues

  feat. Taj Mahal & Vassar Clements
  4:31
• 2
  Save It, Save It

  feat. Jimmy Martin
  1:58
• 3
  Wheels

  feat. Dwight Yoakam
  3:15
• 4
  Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms

  feat. Willie Nelson
  3:56
• 5
  Oh Cumberland

  feat. Matraca Berg & Emmylou Harris
  4:21
• 6
  I Am a Pilgrim

  feat. Doc Watson & Richard Watson
  4:09
• 7
  Sallie Ann (instrumental)

  feat. Earl Scruggs
  2:37
• 8
  Catfish John

  feat. Alison Krauss
  4:07
• 9
  Roll the Stone Away
  4:10
• 10
  All Prayed Up

  feat. Vince Gill
  3:10
• 11
  Return to Dismal Swamp II (instrumental)

  feat. Jerry Douglas, Glen Duncan, Ronnie McCoury & Tony Rice
  3:17
• 12
  There Is a Time

  feat. Rodney Dillard & Ricky Skaggs
  3:32
• 13
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  feat. Taj Mahal, Alison Krauss & Doc Watson
  4:39
• 14
  Farther Along (instrumental)

  feat. Randy Scruggs
  6:01
• DVD 6: live
• 1
  My Walkin' Shoes
• 2
  Catfish John
• 3
  One Step Over the Line
• 4
  Roll the Stone Away
• 5
  Love, Please Come Home
• 6
  All Prayed Up
• 7
  Oh Cumberland
• 8
  Fishin' Blues
• 9
  The Lowlands
• 10
  Return to Dismal Swamp II
• 11
  Earl's Breakdown
• 12
  I Find Jesus
• 13
  Mama's Opry
• 14
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

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Daytrotter Session

Daytrotter Session 2011

Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2

Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2 1989

More Great Dirt: The Best of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Vol. II

More Great Dirt: The Best of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Vol. II 1989

Workin’ Band

Workin’ Band 1988

Hold On

Hold On 1987

Twenty Years of Dirt: The Best of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Twenty Years of Dirt: The Best of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 1986

Release credits

• Alison Krauss & Union Station
  performer [8]
• Bashful Brother Oswald
  resonator guitar [1.2, 1.5, 1.9-11, 2.8, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.25]
• Bob Carpenter
  piano [7], vocal [7]
• Bruce Hornsby
  guest [18], solo [18]
• Chet Flippo
  background vocals [20]
• Chris Hillman
  guest [17], solo [17]
• Doc Watson
  background vocals [1.2, 2.20], guitar [1.2, 1.7-8, 1.10-11, 2.8, 2.11-12, 2.15, 2.20, 2.25], lead vocals [1.7, 2.11], spoken vocals [10, 24]
• Dwight Yoakam
  performer [5.3, 4.8]
• Earl Scruggs
  banjo [1.2-3, 1.11, 2.4, 2.6, 2.16, 2.19-20], guitar [2.8, 2.13, 2.15, 2.18, 1.4-5, 1.9-10], performer [7]
• Ellis Padgett
  double bass [1.14, 2.1, 2.7]
• Emmylou Harris
  guest [8-9, 19], lead vocals [5], performer [13], solo [8-9, 19]
• Gary Scruggs
  background vocals [2.16, 2.20, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.12, 1.16-17]
• Gloria Belle
  background vocals [20]
• Iris DeMent
  performer [5]
• Jeff Hanna
  background vocals [2.11, 2.16, 2.20, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6-7, 1.11-13, 1.16-17], drums (drum set) [9], guitar [1.15, 3.7], lead vocals [14], vocal [7], washboard [1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 2.12, 2.22]
• Jerry Douglas
  resonator guitar [7]
• Jimmie Fadden
  autoharp [4], harmonica [3.7, 1.3, 1.5-9, 1.11-17, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.8, 2.11-13, 2.17, 2.20, 2.22], lead vocals [4, 15], membranophone [7]
• Jimmy Ibbotson
  background vocals [1.1-2, 1.6, 1.11, 1.13, 2.16, 2.20], drums (drum set) [1.15-16, 2.14], guitar [2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.11-12, 2.18, 2.22, 1.7-8], harmonica [15], lead vocals [9], mandolin [7], snare drum [1.4, 1.12-14, 1.17, 2.4, 2.6, 2.13, 2.17], vocal [7]
• Jimmy Martin
  background vocals [11], guest [10], guitar [2.7, 2.20, 1.1, 1.12, 1.14, 1.16-17], lead vocals [2.20, 1.1, 1.12, 1.14, 1.16-17], performer [5.2, 4.4], solo [10]
• Jimmy Martin, Jr.
  background vocals [20]
• John Denver
  guest [6], solo [6]
• John Hiatt
  guest [16], solo [16]
• John McEuen
  banjo [2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11-13, 2.18-19, 2.22, 1.1, 1.3-5, 1.7-8, 1.12-14, 1.16-17], mandolin [1.2, 1.6, 1.11, 2.16, 2.20]
• John Prine
  guest [2], solo [2]
• Johnny Cash
  guest [1, 19], performer [14], solo [1, 19]
• Junior Huskey
  double bass [1.1-13, 1.15-17, 2.2-6, 2.8-9, 2.11-20, 2.22, 2.25]
• Larry Murray
  background vocals [20]
• Les Thompson
  background vocals [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.11-13, 1.16-17, 2.16, 2.20], mandolin [1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.8-9, 1.12, 1.14-17, 2.1, 2.3-7, 2.9, 2.11-13, 2.18, 2.22]
• Levon Helm
  guest [3, 19], solo [3, 19]
• Louise Scruggs
  background vocals [20]
• Mark O’Connor
  fiddle [7]
• Matraca Berg
  lead vocals [5]
• Merle Travis
  background vocals [2], guitar [1.6, 1.13, 2.2, 2.16-17, 2.20], lead vocals [1.6, 1.13, 2.17], spoken vocals [10]
• Michael Martin Murphey
  guest [12], solo [12]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  autoharp [18, 20], guitar [2.16, 1.2], lead vocals [2.16, 2.18, 2.20, 1.2], spoken vocals [24]
• Norman Blake
  resonator guitar [1.3-4, 1.15, 2.4-5, 2.9, 2.14]
• Paulette Carlson
  guest [11], solo [11]
• Randy Scruggs
  autoharp [2, 5, 11], background vocals [20], guitar [2.1, 2.4, 2.6-7, 2.21, 1.3-4, 3.7], performer [14], producer [7]
• Ray Martin
  background vocals [2.20, 1.1, 1.12, 1.16-17]
• Ricky Skaggs
  guest [5, 19], solo [5, 19]
• Roger McGuinn
  guest [17], solo [17]
• Rosanne Cash
  guest [16], solo [16]
• Roy Acuff
  guest [18-19], lead vocals [2.13, 2.20, 1.5, 1.9, 1.11], solo [18-19]
• Roy Huskey, Jr.
  double bass [7]
• Sam Bush
  performer [7]
• Steve Scruggs
  background vocals [20]
• The Nashville Bluegrass Band
  performer [12]
• Vassar Clements
  fiddle [1.1-5, 1.7-9, 1.11-17, 2.1, 2.3-7, 2.9, 2.11-14, 2.16, 2.18, 2.20, 2.22], guitar [15]
• Vince Gill
  performer [10]
• William E. McEuen
  guitar [14], producer [2.1-25, 1.1-17]
• Willie Nelson
  performer [4]
• Show all credits (51)

Issues

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  Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Trilogy

  5x CD, DVD
  2003