Bill Monroe with Lester and Earl

[EggerRidgeBoy]

Bill Monroe recorded 28 songs with Bill and Lester in the band, during four studio sessions in 1946 and 1947. I think those 28 are in this list of 35 recordings from 1945 to 1948 - I'm just not sure which seven don't belong. Does anybody else know? I would just check the liner notes on my JSP box set covering those years, but it is out on loan at the moment, and I can't seem to find that particular info anywhere on the internet.

Blue Grass Special
Heavy Traffic Ahead
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Toy Heart
Summertime Is Past And Gone
Mansions For Me
Mother's Only Sleeping
Blue Yodel #4
Will You Be Loving Another Man
How Will I Explain About You
Wicked Path Of Sin
I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky
It's Mighty Dark To Travel
I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
Little Cabin On The Hill
My Rose Of Old Kentucky
Blue Grass Breakdown
Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
The Old Cross Road
That Home Above
Remember The Cross
Little Community Church
Along About The Daybreak
When You Are Lonely
Molly And Tenbrooks
Shine Hallelujah, Shine
I'm Travellin' On And On
Can't You Hear Me Calling
Travelin' This Lonesome Road
Blue Grass Stomp
The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band
I'll Have A New Life
Come Back To Me In My Dreams
Why Did You Wander
Shining Path

[sunburst]

I'm looking at the "sessionography" from "The Essential Bill Monroe", and the list is:

Heavy Traffic Ahead
Why did you wander
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Toy Heart
Summertime Is Past And Gone
Mansions For Me
Mother's Only Sleeping
Blue Yodel #4
Will You Be Loving Another Man
How Will I Explain About You
Shining Path
Wicked Path Of Sin
I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky
It's Mighty Dark To Travel
I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
Little Cabin Home On The Hill
My Rose Of Old Kentucky
Blue Grass Breakdown
Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
The Old Cross Road
That Home Above
Remember The Cross
Little Community Church
Along About The Daybreak
When You Are Lonely
Molly And Tenbrooks
Shine Hallelujah, Shine
I'm Travellin' On And On

[EggerRidgeBoy]

Thanks John.

The question came up over on BanjoHangout, since according to a poster there Ricky Skaggs is planning to record an album of those 28 songs in honor of the 60th anniversary of the beginning of bluegrass (see http://banjohangout.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=60704 ).

[Peter Hackman]

Blue Grass Special
is pre-Flatt, Tex Willis played the guitar.

Can't You Hear Me Calling
Travelin' This Lonesome Road
Blue Grass Stomp
The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band

these four are post-Flatt; Mac Wiseman played the guitar
and sang lead on the first two numbers.


I'll Have A New Life

is a puzzle; no such title in Rosenberg's discography

Come Back To Me In My Dreams
is pre-Flatt, has Tex Willis on guitar; very rare instance of Monroe
singing lead on the chorus, Sally Ann Forrester sang the
high part. Monroe later recorded the same song as a solo
for Decca.

Just a little foot-note to the previous post.

[flatthead]

I think "I'll Have a New Life" was cut on the Tex Willis/Stringbean/Sally Ann Forrester/Ced/Chubby session in Feb, 1945

[EggerRidgeBoy]

Thanks all for the info.