The one i love is gone

[werbel]

I have fallen in love with Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard's recording of Bill Monroe's "The One I Love is Gone" on their Smithsonian Folkways recording "Pioneering Women of Bluegrass." Apparently Bill Monroe never recorded this himself--guess he thought this gorgeous thing was just a throwaway. I don't know who the mandolin player is, but I do know David Grisman recorded with them. Does anyone know where I might find the mandolin tablature? Many thanks!

Julie

Gibson A-1 (1918)
Gibson A-9

[evanreilly]

David Grisman is playing mandolin on this recording. Lamar Grier on Banjo, Chubby Wise on fiddle.
Tom Ewing also recorded the song; Karl Shiflett did as well, including another verse.
I never saw tab for it; try something like 'Amazing Slow Downer' to learn the break.
Bill didn't necessarily consider the song a 'throw-away'. He kept a lot of songs, as well as tunes, in his head, waiting until he had the right assembly of Blue Grass Boys for that particular number. Sometimes they never got recorded.

[poymando]

I think I remember hearing that Bill wrote that song for Hazel and Alice. Is that possible?

[poymando]

BTW that record would have to be one of my "Desert Island" records. Great.