Classic Bluegrass Collection

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Tracklist

1CD
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1It’s Mighty Dark to Travel
recording of:
It's Mighty Dark to Travel
composer:
Bill Monroe (“The Father of Bluegrass”)
publisher:
Unichappell Music, Inc.
Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys2:53
2Electricity
Jimmy Murphy2:23
3How Mountain Girls Can Love
recording of:
How Mountain Girls Can Love
lyricist and composer:
Ruby Rakes
The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys2:08
4Me and the Juke Box
recording of:
Me and the Juke Box
writer:
Buzz Busby (US bluegrass mandolinist) and Cindy Davis (songwriting pseudonym for Kay Adelman)
Buzz Busby & The Bayou Boys1:56
5I Wouldn’t Change You If I Could
Jim Eanes & His Shenandoah Valley Boys2:22
6Windy Mountain
recording of:
Windy Mountain
lyricist and composer:
“Curly” Ray Cline (Fiddler)
The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers2:25
7Cabin on the Hill
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys2:31
8Kentucky
The Louvin Brothers2:40
9Barbara Allen
Moore & Napier4:13
10Don’t Let Your Sweet Love Die
Reno and Smiley & The Tennessee Cutups2:28
11I Am a Pilgrim
The Kentucky Colonels2:42
12Rank Stranger
The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys3:09
13Nine Pound Hammer
Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys2:07
14Orange Blossom Special
recording of:
Orange Blossom Special
lyricist and composer:
Ervin Rouse
publisher:
Glanco Music (BMI-affiliated) and MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated)
The Stonemans2:35
15The Ballad of Jed Clampett
recording of:
The Ballad of Jed Clampett
lyricist and composer:
Paul Henning (TV screenwriter and songwriter)
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys2:03
16Dooley
recording of:
Dooley
writer:
Mitch Jayne and Rodney Dillard (US bluegrass musician)
The Dillards2:04
17Better Times A‐Coming
Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys2:29
18Uncle Pen
recording of:
Uncle Pen
lyricist and composer:
Bill Monroe (“The Father of Bluegrass”)
publisher:
Carlin Music Corporation, Unichappell Music, Unichappell Music, Inc. and Hill and Range Songs, Inc. (publisher) (in 1975)
Ricky Skaggs2:26
19The Boys Are Back in Town
Patty Loveless2:34
20Will the Circle Be Unbroken
recording of:
Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)
publisher:
Charles M. Alexander, Chicago, Illinois (gospel) (on 1907-04-30)
additional lyricist and additional composer:
A.P. Carter
lyricist:
Ada Ruth Habershon (in 1907)
composer:
Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (in 1907)
publisher:
Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc. ((ASCAP) tradename Peermusic) (on 1935-06-22)
version of:
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band4:51
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