Anthology

Bill Monroe

MCA

An anthology of music recorded for Decca and MCA between 1950 and 1969. Peter Rowan and Vassar Clements play on some of the tracks.

Tracks

• New Mule Skinner Blues (Rodgers / Vaughn)
• My Little Georgia Rose (Monroe)
• Uncle Pen (Monroe)
• Rawhide (Monroe)
• Kentucky Waltz (Monroe)
• When the Cactus Is in Bloom (Rodgers)
• Get Down on Your Knees and Pray (Monroe)
• In the Pines (Bryant / Davis / McMichen)
• Footprints in the Snow (Traditional)
• Walking in Jerusalem (Traditional)
• Get Up John (Monroe)
• On and On (Monroe)
• I'm Working on a Building (Carter)
• Blue Moon of Kentucky (Monroe)
• Roanoke (Ahr)
• Goodbye Old Pal (Monroe)
• Molly and Tenbrooks (Monroe)
• I'm Sitting on Top of the World (Henderson / Lewis / Young)
• I Saw the Light (Williams)
• Scotland (Monroe)
• Panhandle Country (Monroe)
• Gotta Travel On (Clayton)
• Big Mon (Monroe)
• Linda Lou (Butler)
• Lonesome Road Blues (Monroe)
• Time Changes Everything (Duncan)
• I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky (Monroe)
• Toy Heart (Monroe)
• Live and Let Live (Sullivan / Walker)
• Old Joe Clark (Traditional)
• Columbus Stockade Blues (Traditional)
• Drifting Too Far from the Shore (Traditional)
• Somebody Touched Me (Donny / Monroe)
• Jimmy Brown the Newsboy (Carter)
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Williams)
• Devil's Dream (Traditional)
• Highway of Sorrow (Monroe / Pyle)
• Roll on Buddy, Roll On (Wilburn / Wilburn)
• (We're Goin') Just Over in the Gloryland (Traditional)
• Fire on the Mountain (Cody / Eugster)
• Long Black Veil (Dill / Wilkin)
• I Wonder Where You Are Tonight (Bond)
• Dusty Miller (Traditional)
• Midnight on the Stormy Deep (Traditional)
• Sally Goodin (Traditional)
• Walls of Time (Monroe / Rowan)
• I Haven't Seen Mary in Years (Black)
• With Body and Soul (Stauffer)
• Walk Softly on My Heart (Landers / Monroe)
• My Last Days on Earth (Monroe)

Musicians include;

• Bill Monroe - guitar, mandolin, vocals
• Kenny Baker - fiddle, vocals
• Byron Berline - fiddle
• George Binkley - fiddle
• Norman Blake - guitar
• Franklin Buchanan - guitar
• Carl Butler - guitar
• Vassar Clements - fiddle
• Charlie Cline - fiddle
• Jack Cooke - guitar
• Hubert Davis - banjo
• Joe Drumright - banjo
• Tony Ellis - banjo
• Connie Ellisor - violin
• Milton Estes - vocals
• Richard Greene - fiddle
• Lamar Grier - banjo
• Mark Hembree - bass
• Lonnie Hoppers - banjo
• Bobby Hicks - fiddle
• Tommy Jackson - fiddle
• Vic Jordan - banjo
• Bill Keith - banjo
• Rudy Lyle - banjo
• Grady Martin - guitar
• Jimmy Martin - guitar
• Ed Mayfield - guitar
• Jimmy Maynard - guitar, vocals
• Del McCoury - guitar, vocals
• Curtis McPeake - banjo
• Dennis Molchan - violin
• James Monroe - bass, guitar, vocals
• Ernie Newton - bass, vocals
• Sonny Osborne - banjo
• Robert Lee Pennington - banjo
• Jackie Phelps - guitar
• Dale Potter - fiddle
• Joel Price - bass, vocals
• Peter Rowan - guitar, vocals
• Jimmy Selph - guitar
• Hal Smith - fiddle
• Buddy Spicher - fiddle
• Carter Stanley - guitar, vocals
• Red Stanley - fiddle
• Don Stover - banjo
• Joe Stuart - banjo, fiddle, guitar
• Merle "Red" Taylor - fiddle
• Gordon Terry - fiddle, vocals
• Howard Watts - bass
• Roland White - guitar
• Rual Yarbrough - banjo
• Joe Zinkan - bass