Title: All the Classic Releases 1937-1949
Artist: Bill Monroe
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065771225
Genre: Bluegrass
Release Date: 2003-06-10
Number of Discs: 4
Additional Details: BOXED SET

Born in 1911 on a Kentucky farm, Bill Monroe was the youngest of eight. The three youngest brothers formed a trio, Birch on fiddle, Charlie on guitar and Bill on mandolin. Bill made quick progress. He quit school aged 11. By 14 he was a full time heavy wagon driver. And he was getting experience in local dance bands. In 1927, Birch and Charlie left for Detroit to find work. They made extra cash by playing for fellow southerners. In 1929 they got Bill a job with their company. In 1932, the brothers joined the WLS Barn Dance as dancers. They revealed their musical skills and were soon radio regulars. In 1933, Charlie was offered a spot on the Texas Crystals radio show, broadcast from Shenandoah, Iowa. Bill went too. Despite it's success, Texas Crystals axed the show in 1936. The Monroes moved to Crazy Crystals. A hectic round of radio and dances ensued. They were signed to Victor's Bluebird label. The ten sides recorded at their first session were probably part of their radio set - nearly all were 'one-take' cuts. Of the ten sides, What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul was a huge hit. Regular recording dates became part of the schedule. Monroe product was released every four weeks. But in 1937 Bill and Charlie, mutually hostile in spite of their success, split. Bill gained a slot on a small radio station in North Carolina. The band he created - the Bluegrass Boys - generated a buzz on radio and at dances. Finally Bluebird signed him. The records he made justified their confidence. The wartime recording ban didn't hinder Bill's fame - he made regular Opry appearances - and in 1945 he was back in the studio. The 1946 and 1947 line-ups, with Flatt & Scruggs in the band, are exceptional. In the 1960s, after a slip in popularity, the folk revival helped him re-establish his leading status. During his life he celebrated 50 years on the Grand Ole Opry, performed at the White House and worked almost to the last. He died in 1996.

Tracks:
1.1 My Long Journey Home
1.2 What Is Home Without Love
1.3 What Would You Give in Exchange?
1.4 Little Red Shoes
1.5 Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy
1.6 On Some Foggy Mountain Top
1.7 Drifting Too Far from the Shore
1.8 In My Dear Old Southern Home
1.9 New River Train
1.10 This World Is Not My Home
1.11 Watermelon Hangin' on That Vine
1.12 On the Banks of the Ohio
1.13 Do You Call That Religion?
1.14 God Holds the Future in His Hands
1.15 You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley
1.16 Six Months Ain't Long
1.17 Just a Song of Old Kentucky
1.18 Don't Forget Me
1.19 I'm Going
1.20 Darling Corey
1.21 My Saviors Train
1.22 I Am Thinking Tonight of the Old Folks
1.23 Dreamed I Searched Heaven for You
1.24 The Old Cross Road
1.25 The Forgotten Soldier Boy
1.26 We Read of a Place That's Called Heaven
1.27 Will the Circle Be Unbroken
1.28 The Saints Go Marching in
1.29 Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
1.30 Where Is My Sailor Boy
2.1 Am I Ready to Go
2.2 What Would the Profit Be
2.3 Some Glad Day
2.4 I Have Found the Way
2.5 I Am Going That Way
2.6 Kate Cline
2.7 Roll on Buddy
2.8 Weeping Willow Tree
2.9 I'll Live on
2.10 Oh Hide You in the Blood
2.11 What Would You Give in Exchange
2.12 On That Gospel Ship
2.13 What Would You Give in Exchange (Part 3)
2.14 Let Us Be Lovers Again
2.15 All the Good Times Are Passed and Gone
2.16 What Would You Give Me in Exchange (Part 4)
2.17 On My Way to Glory
2.18 My Last Moving Day
2.19 He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
2.20 Sinner You Better Get Ready
2.21 Have a Feast Here Tonight
2.22 Goodbye Maggie
2.23 Rollin' on
2.24 The Old Man's Story
2.25 I've Still Got Ninety Nine
2.26 Little Joe
2.27 A Beautiful Life
2.28 Pearly Gates
2.29 On My Way Back Home
2.30 When Our Lord Shall Come Again
3.1 Mule Skinner Blues
3.2 No Lette in the Mail
3.3 Cryin' Holy Unto the Lord
3.4 Six White Horses
3.5 Dog House Blues
3.6 I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do
3.7 Katy Hill
3.8 Tennessee Blues
3.9 Shake My Mother's Hand for Me
3.10 Were You There
3.11 Blue Yodel #7
3.12 The Coupon Song
3.13 Orange Blossom Special
3.14 Honky Tonk Swing
3.15 In the Pines
3.16 Back Up and Push
3.17 Rocky Road Blues
3.18 Kentucky Waltz
3.19 True Life Blues
3.20 Goodbye Old Pal
3.21 Footprints in the Snow
3.22 Blue Grass Special
3.23 Heavy Traffic Ahead
3.24 Blue Moon of Kentucky
3.25 Toy Heart
4.1 Summertime Is Past and Gone
4.2 Mansions for Me
4.3 Mother's Only Sleeping
4.4 Blue Yodel #4
4.5 Will You Be Loving Another Man
4.6 How Will I Explain About You
4.7 Wicked Path of Sin
4.8 I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky
4.9 It's Mighty Dark to Travel
4.10 I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling
4.11 Little Cabin on the Hill
4.12 My Rose of Old Kentucky
4.13 Blue Grass Breakdown
4.14 Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
4.15 The Old Cross Road
4.16 That Home Above
4.17 Remember the Cross
4.18 Little Community Church
4.19 Along About the Daybreak
4.20 When You Are Lonely
4.21 Molly and Tenbrooks
4.22 Shine Hallelujah, Shine
4.23 I'm Travellin' on and on
4.24 Can't You Hear Me Calling
4.25 Travelin' This Lonesome Road
4.26 Blue Grass Stomp
4.27 The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band

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