Bluegrass 1959-1969

Bill Monroe

Bear Family

A 4 CD set of Bill Monroe music recorded between 1959 and 1969. Peter Rowan and Vassar Clements play on some of the tracks.

Tracks

• When The Phone Rang (Hudgins)
• Tomorrow I'll Be Gone (Cooper)
• Dark As The Night, Blue As The Day (Monroe)
• Stoney Lonesome (Monroe)
• Lonesome Wind Blues (Raney)
• Thinking About You (Fikes / Monroe)
• Come Go With Me (Robbins)
• Sold Down the River (Monroe)
• Linda Lou (Butler)
• You Live in a World All Your Own (Traditional)
• Little Joe (Carter)
• Put My Rubber Doll Away (Acuff / Edgin)
• Seven Year Blues (Hill / Louvin / Louvin)
• Time Changes Everything (Duncan)
• Lonesome Road Blues (Monroe)
• Big River (Cash)
• Flowers of Love (Martin / Monroe)
• It's Mighty Dark to Travel (Monroe)
• Bluegrass, Pt. 1 (Bluegrass Twist) (Monroe)
• Little Maggie (Monroe)
• I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky (Monroe)
• Toy Heart (Monroe)
• Shady Grove (Traditional)
• Nine Pound Hammer (Travis)
• Live and Let Live (Sullivan / Walker)
• Danny Boy (Weatherly)
• Cotton Fields (Traditional)
• Journey's End (Stewart / Tubb)
• John Hardy (Traditional)
• Bugle Call Rag (Meyers / Pettis / Schoebel)
• Old Joe Clark (Traditional)
• There Was Nothing We Could Do (Carson)
• I Was Left on the Street (Carson / Monroe)
• Cheap Love Affair (Carson / Monroe)
• When the Bees Are in the Hive (Bryan / Mills)
• Big Ball in Brooklyn (Traditional)
• Columbus Stockade Blues (Traditional)
• Blue Ridge Mountain Blues (Monroe)
• How Will I Explain About You? (Monroe)
• Foggy River (Rose)
• The Old Country Baptising (Bryott / Shumate)
• I Found the Way (Green / Pace)
• This World Is Not My Home (Traditional)
• Way Down Deep in My Soul (Hunter)
• Drifting Too Far from the Shore (Traditional)
• Going Home (Tipton)
• On the Jericho Road (Traditional)
• We'll Understand It Better (Traditional)
• Somebody Touched Me (Donny / Monroe)
• Careless Love (Handy / Koenig / Williams)
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Williams)
• Jimmy Brown the Newsboy (Carter)
• Pass Me Not (Monroe)
• Gloryland Way (Traditional)
• Farther Along (Traditional)
• Big Sandy River (Baker / Monroe)
• Baker's Breakdown (Baker / Monroe)
• Darling Corey (Traditional)
• Cindy (Traditional)
• Master Builder (Martin / Wilson)
• Let Me Rest at the End of the Day (Traditional)
• Salt Creek (Keith / Monroe)
• Devil's Dream (Traditional)
• Sailor's Hornpipe (Keith / Monroe)
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord (Traditional)
• Pike County Breakdown (Monroe)
• Shenandoah Breakdown (Monroe)
• Santa Claus (Monroe)
• I'll Meet You in Church Sunday Morning (Traditional)
• Mary at the Home Place (Clark)
• Highway of Sorrow (Monroe / Pyle)
• One of God's Sheep (Fowler)
• Roll on Buddy, Roll On (Wilburn / Wilburn)
• Legend of the Blue Ridge Mountains (Scarlet)
• Last Old Dollar (George / Sullivan)
• Bill's Dream (Monroe)
• Louisville Breakdown (Monroe)
• Never Again (Will I Knock on Your Door) (Williams)
• Just Over in the Gloryland (Traditional)
• Fire on the Mountain (Cody / Eugster)
• Long Black Veil (Dill / Wilkin)
• I Live in the Past (Stauffer)
• There's an Old, Old House (Bynum / Jones)
• When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again (Sullivan / Walker)*
• I Wonder Where You Are Tonight (Bond)*
• Turkey in the Straw (Traditional)*
• Pretty Fair Maiden in the Garden (Monroe)*
• Log Cabin in the Lane (Eanes)*
• Paddy on the Turnpike (Monroe)
• That's All Right (Inman)*
• It Makes No Difference Now (Davis / Tillman)*
• Dusty Miller (Traditional)*
• Midnight on the Stormy Deep (Traditional)*
• All the Good Times Are Passed and Gone (Traditional)*
• Soldier's Joy (Traditional)*
• Blue Night (McGee)*
• Grey Eagle (Traditional)*
• The Gold Rush (Monroe)
• Sally Goodin (Traditional)
• Virginia Darlin' (Monroe)
• Is the Blue Moon Still Shining? (Monroe)
• Train 45 (Heading South) (Monroe)
• Kentucky Mandolin (Monroe)
• I Want to Go With You (Monroe)
• Crossing the Cumberlands (Monroe)
• Walls of Time (Monroe / Rowan)
• I Haven't Seen Mary in Years (Black)
• Fireball Mail (Jenkins)
• The Dead March (Monroe)
• Cripple Creek (Traditional)
• What About You? (Anglin / Wright)
• With Body and Soul (Stauffer)
• Methodist Preacher (Monroe)
• Walk Softly on My Heart (Landers / Monroe)
• Tall Pines (Black)
• Candy Gal (Monroe)
• Going Up Caney (Monroe)
• The Lee Weddin' Tune (Traditional)
• Bonny (Southern)
• Sweet Mary and the Miles in Between (Black)

Musicians include;

• Bill Monroe - guitar, mandolin, vocals
• Kenny Baker - fiddle, vocals
• Byron Berline - fiddle
• Franklin G. Buchanan - guitar, vocals
• Carl Butler - guitar
• Vassar Clements - fiddle
• Jack Cooke - guitar
• Joe Drumright - banjo
• Ray Edenton - vocals
• Richard Greene - fiddle
• Bobby Hicks - fiddle
• Culley Holt - vocals
• Lonnie Hoppers Banjo
• Joe Leste
• Bobby Lester - fiddle, vocals
• Benny Martin - fiddle
• Bessie Lee Mauldin - bass
• Del McCoury - guitar, vocals
• Curtis McPeake - banjo
• James Monroe - guitar, bass
• Robert Lee Pennington - banjo
• Jackie Phelps - guitar
• Dale Potter - fiddle
• Peter Rowan - guitar, vocals (on tracks marked above with *)
• Charlie Smith - fiddle
• Buddy Spicher - fiddle
• Joe Stuart - banjo, guitar
• B. White - vocals
• Roland White - guitar
• Benny Williams - fiddle
• Tommy Williams - fiddle
• Rual Yarbrough - banjo
• Robert Yates - bass
• Joe Zinkan - bass