Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys - The Essential Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys (1945-1949) download mp3, flac

Tracklist

The First Columbia Session: Chicago, Illinois February 13, 1945
1-01	Rocky Road Blues
1-02	Kentucky Waltz
1-03	True Life Blues
1-04	Nobody Loves Me
1-05	Goodbye Old Pal
1-06	Footprints In The Snow
1-07	Blue Grass Special
1-08	Come Back To Me In My Dreams
The Second Columbia Session: Chicago, Illinois September 16,1946
1-09	Heavy Traffic Ahead
1-10	Why Did You Wander?
1-11	Blue Moon Of Kentucky
1-12	Toy Heart
1-13	Summertime Is Past And Gone
1-14	Mansions For Me
1-15	Mother's Onbly Sleeping
1-16	Blue Yodel No. 4
The Third Columbia Session: Chicago, Illinois September 17, 1946
1-17	Will You Be Loving Another Man?
1-18	How Will I Explain About You?
1-19	Shining Path
1-20	Wicked Path Of Sin
The Fourth Session: Chicago, Illinois October 27, 1947
2-01	I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky
2-02	It's Mighty Dark To Travel
2-03	I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
2-04	Little Cabin Home On The Hill
2-05	My Rose Of Old Kentucky
2-06	Blue Grass Breakdown
2-07	Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
2-08	The Old Cross Road
The Fifth Columbia Session: Chicago, Illinois October 28, 1947
2-09	That Home Above
2-10	Remember The Cross
2-11	Little Community Church
2-12	Along About Daybreak
2-13	When You Are Lonely
2-14	Molly And Tenbrooks (The Racehorse Song)
2-15	Shine Hallelujah Shine
2-16	I'm Travellin' On And On
The Sixth Columbia Session: Nashville, Tennessee Castle Studios October 22, 1949
2-17	Can't You Hear Me Callin'
2-18	Travelin' This Lonseome Road
2-19	Blue Grass Stomp
2-20	The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band

Credits

• Accordion – Sally Ann Forrester (tracks: 1-01 to 1-08)
• Arranged By – Boyd Lane (tracks: 1-06)
• Banjo – David "Stringbean" Akeman (tracks: 1-01 to 1-08), Earl Scruggs (tracks: 1-09 to 1-18, 2-01 to 2-08, 2-12, 2-14), Rudy Lyle (tracks: 2-17 to 2-20)
• Compilation Producer – Lawrence Cohn
• Double Bass – Bill Westbrook (tracks: 1-01 to 1-08), Howard Watts (tracks: 1-09 to 1-18, 2-01 to 2-08, 2-12, 2-14), Jack Thompson (tracks: 2-17 to 2-20)
• Fiddle – Chubby Wise (tracks: 1-01 to 1-18, 2-01 to 2-08, 2-12, 2-14, 2-17 to 2-20)
• Guitar – Chubby Wise (tracks: 2-11, 2-16), Lester Flatt (tracks: 1-09 to 2-16), Malcolm "Mac" Wiseman* (tracks: 2-17 to 2-20), Tex Willis (tracks: 1-01 to 1-08)
• Mandolin – Bill Monroe
• Remastered By [Digital Remastering] – David Mitson
• Vocals – Bill Monroe (tracks: 1-01 to 1-06, 1-08 to 2-05, 2-06 to 2-18, 2-20), Birch Monroe (tracks: 1-19, 1-20), Earl Scruggs (tracks: 1-19, 1-20, 2-09 to 2-11, 2-15, 2-16), Howard Watts (tracks: 2-09 to 2-11, 2-15, 2-16), Lester Flatt (tracks: 1-10, 1-12 to 1-15, 1-16 to 2-04, 2-06 to 2-10, 2-12, 2-15, 2-16), Malcolm "Mac" Wiseman* (tracks: 2-17, 2-18), Wilene "Sally Ann" Forrester* (tracks: 1-04, 1-08), Tex Willis (tracks: 1-03, 1-04, 1-08)
• Written-By – Bill Monroe (tracks: 1-01 to 1-03, 1-05, 1-07 to 1-15, 1-17 to 2-19), Cliff Carlisle (tracks: 2-20), Howard Watts (tracks: 2-10), Jimmy Rodgers* (tracks: 1-16), Lester Flatt (tracks: 1-17, 2-04, 2-07, 2-11, 2-13), Mel Foree (tracks: 2-20), Zeke Clements (tracks: 1-04)

Notes

Tracks 1-01 to 1-08 rec. 13/2/1945, Chicago IL
Tracks 1-09 to 1-16 rec. 16/9/1946, Chicago, IL.
Tracks 1-17 to 1-20 rec. 17/9/1946, Chicago, IL.
Tracks 2-01 to 2-08 rec. 27/10/1947, Chicago, IL.
Tracks 2-09 to 2-16 rec. 28/10/1947, Chicago, IL.
Tracks 2-17 to 2-20 rec. 22/10/1949, Nashville, TN.
Tracks 1-02 to 1-05, 1-07, 1-10, 1-13, 2-01, 2-02, 2-06 to 2-08, 2-10, 2-15, 2-17 are previously unreleased alternate takes.
(p) & © 1992, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.

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Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
C2T 52478	Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys*	The Essential Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys (1945-1949) ‎(2xCass, Promo + Box, Comp)	Columbia, Legacy	C2T 52478	US	1992