View Full Version : Looking For Evening Prayer Blues By Bill Monroe
Billy1
Nov-24-2009, 6:07pm
I learned Evening Prayer Blues by listening to Bill on the Opry and the Master Of Bluegrass lp but was wondering if anybody has a live recording of him doing it? I've heard him play it live several times and would just like to hear him play it one more time.
woodwizard
Nov-24-2009, 6:47pm
Here's a nice youtube ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5m6kuu2z9g
evanreilly
Nov-24-2009, 7:40pm
And here is the 'original' version of the tune, by Deford Bailey.
Monroe used to have Bailey travel with him back in the early days of the Blue Grass Music, when there were big tent shows, with several acts, mostly other Opry stars.
grassrootphilosopher
Nov-25-2009, 2:47am
Whatīs the lineup of the recording (Master of Bluegrass)? Bill Monroe never fails to thrill me. I love the edge on Evening Prayer Blues. Especially who is on guitar? It canīt be Wayne Lewis...?
Fretbear
Nov-25-2009, 3:16am
I think it would have been Wayne Lewis, it was during his hitch anyways;
Butch Robins on banjo, Kenny Baker on fiddle.
Norman Lee Blake is also given guitar credits along with Jesse McReynolds on mandolin, but the tracks they play on are not identified.
Russ Jordan
Nov-25-2009, 4:48am
Pretty sure Norman Blake is on Evening Prayer Blues.
Spruce
Nov-25-2009, 10:52am
I learned Evening Prayer Blues by listening to Bill on the Opry and the Master Of Bluegrass lp but was wondering if anybody has a live recording of him doing it? I've heard him play it live several times and would just like to hear him play it one more time.
Can you tell us where and when you heard Mr. Bill play EPB live?
Love to hear all about it....
Live recordings of the tune by him are rare...
My favorite is from Vancouver, BC, Canada on 11/3/1980, where he prefaces the tune with the story about his relationship with Gibson...
I've got it here somewhere, and will see if I can post it...
Billy1
Nov-25-2009, 3:48pm
I've heard him play it on the Opry a couple times and also heard him play it on his bus at Bean Blossom.
Spruce
Nov-25-2009, 4:01pm
I've heard him play it on the Opry a couple times and also heard him play it on his bus at Bean Blossom.
Whoa...
Here's a nice youtube ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5m6kuu2z9gnot working, but Alan Sibley is :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9nBEvyswac&feature=related
Mike Bunting
Jan-04-2012, 9:22pm
A real definitive version to my ear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G4dmPTsiSw&list=PL5D46B4E8C1666D9C&index=1&feature=plpp_vide
Smiley Pockets
Jan-04-2012, 9:30pm
Here's another great version: Ronnie McCoury and Wake Frankfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0kLkHNoF70&feature=related
Fretbear
Jan-04-2012, 10:16pm
One of Frank's authentic Monroeism's is to mess with the timing to try to throw the other guy off.....Ronny ain't having any of it.....
"That's a good mandolin....." Two Loars played by two Hosses.....
A real definitive version to my ear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G4dmPTsiSw&list=PL5D46B4E8C1666D9C&index=1&feature=plpp_videWow, that first part is moving. Brings back memories of the old churches in the south that I grew up in. My father was a gospel singer and he took me with him on the country church singing tours. The music is seeded back in my mind, and sprouts occasionally.