Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Tracklist

• 1
  Grand Ole Opry Song
  3:11
• 2
  Keep on the Sunny Side
  4:28
• 3
  Nashville Blues
  3:15
  5.0 ★
• 4
  You Are My Flower
  3:42
• 5
  The Precious Jewel
  4:11
• 6
  Dark as a Dungeon
  2:47
• 7
  Tennessee Stud
  4:50
• 8
  Black Mountain Rag
  2:40
• 9
  Wreck on the Highway
  3:25
• 10
  The End of the World
  3:55
• 11
  I Saw the Light
  4:23
• 12
  Sunny Side of the Mountain
  2:50
• 13
  Nine Pound Hammer
  2:53
• 14
  Losin’ You (Might Be the Best Thing Yet)
  2:49
• 15
  Honky Tonkin’
  2:31
• 16
  You Don’t Know My Mind
  2:47
• 17
  My Walkin’ Shoes
  2:50
• 18
  Lonesome Fiddle Blues
  2:43
• 19
  Cannonball Rag
  1:15
• 20
  Avalanche
  2:51
• 21
  Flint Hill Special
  2:12
• 22
  Togary Mountain
  2:28
• 23
  Earl’s Breakdown
  2:37
• 24
  Orange Blossom Special
  2:12
• 25
  Wabash Cannonball
  2:03
• 26
  Lost Highway
  3:47
• 27
  Doc Watson and Merle Travis: First Meeting (dialogue)
  1:52
• 28
  Way Downtown
  3:36
• 29
  Down Yonder
  3:45
• 30
  Pins and Needles (in My Heart)
  2:54
• 31
  Honky Tonk Blues
  2:24
• 32
  Sailin’ On to Hawaii
  2:08
• 33
  I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
  4:25
• 34
  I Am a Pilgrim
  3:55
• 35
  Wildwood Flower
  3:34
• 36
  Soldier’s Joy
  3:34
• 37
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  4:51
  4.0 ★
• 38
  Both Sides Now
  2:27

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Release credits

• Bashful Brother Oswald
  resonator guitar [2, 5, 9-11, 25, 30, 32-33]
• Chet Flippo
  background vocals [37]
• Doc Watson
  background vocals [2, 37], guitar [2, 7-8, 10-11, 25, 28-29, 32, 37], lead vocals [7, 28], spoken vocals [27]
• Earl Scruggs
  banjo [2-3, 11, 21, 23, 33, 36-37], guitar [4-5, 9-10, 25, 30, 32, 35]
• Ellis Padgett
  double bass [14, 18, 24]
• Gary Scruggs
  background vocals [1-2, 4, 12, 16-17, 33, 37]
• Gloria Belle
  background vocals [37]
• Jeff Hanna
  background vocals [1-2, 4, 6-7, 11-13, 16-17, 28, 33, 37], drums (drum set) [26], guitar [15], lead vocals [31], washboard [3, 18, 20, 29]
• Jimmie Fadden
  autoharp [4], harmonica [3, 5-9, 11-18, 20-21, 25, 28-30, 34, 37], lead vocals [4, 15]
• Jimmy Ibbotson
  background vocals [1-2, 6, 11, 13, 33, 37], drums (drum set) [15-16, 31], guitar [7-8, 18, 20, 22, 26, 28-29, 35], harmonica [15], lead vocals [26], snare drum [4, 12-14, 17, 21, 23, 30, 34]
• Jimmy Martin
  background vocals [11], guitar [1, 12, 14, 16-17, 24, 37], lead vocals [1, 12, 14, 16-17, 37]
• Jimmy Martin, Jr.
  background vocals [37]
• John McEuen
  banjo [1, 3-5, 7-8, 12-14, 16-18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28-30, 35-36], mandolin [2, 6, 11, 33, 37]
• Junior Huskey
  double bass [1-13, 15-17, 19-23, 25-26, 28-37]
• Larry Murray
  background vocals [37]
• Les Thompson
  background vocals [1-2, 4, 6, 11-13, 16-17, 33, 37], mandolin [1, 3, 5, 8-9, 12, 14-18, 20-24, 26, 28-30, 35]
• Louise Scruggs
  background vocals [37]
• Merle Travis
  background vocals [2], guitar [6, 13, 19, 33-34, 37], lead vocals [6, 13, 34], spoken vocals [27]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  autoharp [35, 37], guitar [2, 33], lead vocals [2, 33, 35, 37]
• Norman Blake
  resonator guitar [3-4, 15, 21-22, 26, 31]
• Randy Scruggs
  autoharp [2, 5, 11], background vocals [37], guitar [3-4, 18, 21, 23-24, 38]
• Ray Martin
  background vocals [1, 12, 16-17, 37]
• Roy Acuff
  lead vocals [5, 9, 11, 30, 37]
• Steve Scruggs
  background vocals [37]
• Vassar Clements
  fiddle [1-5, 7-9, 11-18, 20-24, 26, 28-31, 33, 35, 37], guitar [15]
• William E. McEuen
  guitar [31], producer
• Show all credits (26)

Issues

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  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  6x 12" Vinyl
  1972
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  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  2x CD
  1 November 1994
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  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  2x CD
  1 June 1996
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  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  2x CD (30th Anniversary Edition)
  26 March 2002
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  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  2x CD (30th Anniversary Edition)
  2002
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  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  Digital Media (40th anniversary edition)
  21 January 2014
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  Will The Circle Be Unbroken

  2x CD
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  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  2x Digital Media