788065771225

All The Classic Releases 1937-1949

Bill Monroe

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: JSPCD7712

Release Date:  09 June 2003

Label:  JSP

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  788065771225

Genres:  Country  

  • Description

    Bill Monroe was the father of bluegrass. He invented the style, invented the name and, for much of the 20th Century, embodied the genre. The music took its name from his Blue Grass Boys whose recordings and performances emphasised instrumental vituosity, close vocal harmonies and a driving tempo, forever defining the sound of classical bluegrass: a 5-piece acoustic string band, playing precisely and rapidly, switching solos and singing with plaintive, high lonesome voices.

    This 4-CD box set features 112 of the band's recordings, from the late 1930s sides that began to establish Monroe's reputation to their mid-to late '40s heyday, when the Blue Grass Boys included their most famous members, vocalist/guitarist Lester Flatt and banjoist Earl Scruggs, supporting Monroe (vocals,mandolin) with Chubby Wise (fiddle) and Howard Watts (bass).

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. My Long Journey Home
      • 2. What Is Home Without Love
      • 3. What Would You Give in Exchange?
      • 4. Little Red Shoes
      • 5. Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy
      • 6. On Some Foggy Mountain Top
      • 7. Drifting Too Far From The Shore
      • 8. In My Dear Old Southern Home
      • 9. New River Train
      • 10. This World Is Not My Home
      • 11. Watermelon Hangin' On That Vine
      • 12. On The Banks Of The Ohio
      • 13. Do You Call That Religion?
      • 14. God Holds The Future In His Hands
      • 15. You've Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley
      • 16. Six Months Ain't Long
      • 17. Just A Song Of Old Kentucky
      • 18. Don't Forget Me
      • 19. I'm Going
      • 20. Darling Corey
      • 21. My Saviors Train
      • 22. I Am Thinking Tonight Of The Old Folks
      • 23. Dreamed I Searched Heaven For You
      • 24. The Old Cross Road
      • 25. The Forgotten Soldier Boy
      • 26. We Read Of A Place That's Called Heaven
      • 27. Will The Circle Be Unbroken
      • 28. The Saints Go Marching In
      • 29. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
      • 30. Where Is My Sailor Boy

      Disc 2

      • 1. Am I Ready To Go
      • 2. What Would The Profit Be
      • 3. Some Glad Day
      • 4. I Have Found The Way
      • 5. I Am Going That Way
      • 6. Kate Cline
      • 7. Roll On Buddy
      • 8. Weeping Willow Tree
      • 9. I'll Live On
      • 10. Oh Hide You In The Blood
      • 11. What Would You Give In Exchange
      • 12. On That Gospel Ship
      • 13. What Would You Give In Exchange (Part 3)
      • 14. Let Us Be Lovers Again
      • 15. All The Good Times Are Passed And Gone
      • 16. What Would You Give Me In Exchange (Part 4)
      • 17. On My Way To Glory
      • 18. My Last Moving Day
      • 19. He Will Set Your Fields On Fire
      • 20. Sinner You Better Get Ready
      • 21. Have A Feast Here Tonight
      • 22. Goodbye Maggie
      • 23. Rollin' On
      • 24. The Old Man's Story
      • 25. I've Still Got Ninety Nine
      • 26. Little Joe
      • 27. A Beautiful Life
      • 28. Pearly Gates
      • 29. On My Way Back Home
      • 30. When Our Lord Shall Come Again

      Disc 3

      • 1. Mule Skinner Blues
      • 2. No Lette In The Mail
      • 3. Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord
      • 4. Six White Horses
      • 5. Dog House Blues
      • 6. I Wonder If You Feel The Way I Do
      • 7. Katy Hill
      • 8. Tennessee Blues
      • 9. Shake My Mother's Hand For Me
      • 10. Were You There
      • 11. Blue Yodel #7
      • 12. The Coupon Song
      • 13. Orange Blossom Special
      • 14. Honky Tonk Swing
      • 15. In The Pines
      • 16. Back Up And Push
      • 17. Rocky Road Blues
      • 18. Kentucky Waltz
      • 19. True Life Blues
      • 20. Goodbye Old Pal
      • 21. Footprints In The Snow
      • 22. Blue Grass Special
      • 23. Heavy Traffic Ahead
      • 24. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
      • 25. Toy Heart

      Disc 4

      • 1. Summertime Is Past And Gone
      • 2. Mansions For Me
      • 3. Mother's Only Sleeping
      • 4. Blue Yodel #4
      • 5. Will You Be Loving Another Man
      • 6. How Will I Explain About You
      • 7. Wicked Path Of Sin
      • 8. I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky
      • 9. It's Mighty Dark To Travel
      • 10. I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
      • 11. Little Cabin On The Hill
      • 12. My Rose Of Old Kentucky
      • 13. Blue Grass Breakdown
      • 14. Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
      • 15. The Old Cross Road
      • 16. That Home Above
      • 17. Remember The Cross
      • 18. Little Community Church
      • 19. Along About The Daybreak
      • 20. When You Are Lonely
      • 21. Molly And Tenbrooks
      • 22. Shine Hallelujah, Shine
      • 23. I'm Travellin' On And On
      • 24. Can't You Hear Me Calling
      • 25. Travelin' This Lonesome Road
      • 26. Blue Grass Stomp
      • 27. The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band