The Complete Bill Monroe w/ Flatt & Scruggs CD?

[mandopops]

Is there a CD with the all of the original Monroe w/ Flatt & Scruggs Band recordings? Or do I have to buy a bigger box set w/ other stuff in it?

I have an old LP of their music together, plus a couple of trax off another. I've been working off that for years(made a CD dub of it also).

While I'm at it, what is the complete list of tunes they recorded? I don't know what I might be missing. Is there any decent live recordings?

This is my favorite Bluegrass, the early raw recordings.

I hope I'm not asking to much to supply the list. There can't be that many. I'm sure any real Bluegrass Mandolin die-hard could rattle them off the top of their head.

[Fred Keller]

I'm not aware of a single CD offering of this material. Others will have to confirm as my brain is addled from not nearly enough sleep, but I think the one you need is the 1936-1949 set of 6 discs from the Bear Family. Check it out here at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Moon-Kentucky-1936-1949-Monroe/dp/B00007FP9F/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1249243071&sr=8-2)

[mandozilla]

Here's what I remember at 0100 in the morning at my desk in the control room at work. :mad:

1.) Molly & Tenbrooks
2.) When You're Lonely
3.) Will You be Loving Another Man
4.) Rocky Road Blues
5.) Summertime is Past and Gone
6.) Nobody Loves Me
7.) Heavy Traffic Ahead
8.) Bluegrass Breakdown
9.) Little Cabin Home on the Hill
10.) Wicked Path of Sin
11.) Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
12.) That Home Above
13.) Bluegrass Stomp (?)
14.) Toy Heart
15.) Rose of Kentucky (?)
16.) Mansions for Me
17.) Remember the Cross
18.) The Old Crossroads
19.) Lord I'm Travelling On and On (not On and On with Jimmy)
20.) How Will I Explain About You?
21.) Mothers Only Sleeoing
22.) I hear a Sweet Voice Calling
23.) Can't You Hear Me Callin' (?)
24.) Shine Hallelujah Shine
25.) Little Community Church house
26.) Along About Daybreak
27.) It's Mighty dark to Travel
28.) I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky

I might be wrong about a few of them and I probably left some out but its's a start. :grin:

~o):popcorn:

[Fretbear]

This is my favorite Bluegrass, the early raw recordings.

It wasn't that raw, it was pretty damn smooth.....

[evanreilly]

In addition to finding the entire collection on the Bear Family releases, you might also find the following:
Columbia/Legacy C2K 52478; The Essential Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, 1945 - 1949. This is a two disc set & it contains all the released takes, as well as a score of unreleased takes.

[swampstomper]

It wasn't that raw, it was pretty damn smooth.....

That's for sure! Monroe rehearshed his boys (and girl) in the various combinations to get a tight sound. He wanted to differentiate himself from "hillbillies" and he always admired long-bow (not jerky-bow) fiddlers, hence Chubby Wise. Lester was always smooth as a guitarist and even laconic as a singer.

You can't get much smoother at high tempo than the "classic" band's version of "Why Did You Wander?" Mon's Monroe-brothers style pentatonic scales up and down in the breaks is breathtaking. And of course there's Blue Grass Breakdown.

To the OP, the Columbia double CD mentioned above is the one you want for this period of Mon's music.

[Charley wild]

Here's what I remember at 0100 in the morning at my desk in the control room at work. :mad:


Hey, Mandozilla! I don't know what you're controlling but I hope your in control. Thinking about those old Monroe recordings can be downright distractin'!:))

[mandopops]

Thanx all for the info, sounds like I should go w/ the 2-Disc Columbia Essential 1945-1947.
As for 'raw', to me me it can be raw & still be tight and energetic. That's why I like it.
Smooth?? Kenny G is smooth. No thanx.

[mandozilla]

Hey, Mandozilla! I don't know what you're controlling but I hope your in control. Thinking about those old Monroe recordings can be downright distractin'!

HaHaHa Charley...ever watch the Simpsons? Except my power plant ain't nuclear...thank the Lord! :))

~o):mandosmiley:

[John McGann]

Those Bear Family boxes are great, and you can even pop the CDs into iTunes and change the running order to match the original records!

[Monstershow]

Flatt & Scruggs
The Complete Mercury Recordings is excellent. It is a single CD with 28 songs recorded from '48 through '50

[Marty Henrickson]

Flatt & Scruggs
The Complete Mercury Recordings is excellent. It is a single CD with 28 songs recorded from '48 through '50
But of course, Bill Monroe wouldn't be on that CD.

Mark, do you ever need any pipefitters that also happen to be pickers over there at the power plant?:mandosmiley: