Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways

Various Artists

Smithsonian/Folkways 40092

David Grisman plays on at least one track of this bluegrass compilation. Mike Seeger plays on 4 of the tracks.

Tracks

• White House Blues - Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys
• Our Last Goodbye - Johnson Mountain Boys
• When He Reached Down His Hand for Me - Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys
• A Tiny Broken Heart - Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
• New Camptown Races - Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, and the Kentuckians
• Suzanne - Harley Allen-Mike Lilly Band
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name in Prayer - Nashville Grass
• Teardrops in My Eyes - Friendly City Playboys
• Cumberland Gap - Snuffy Jenkins
• Live and Let Live - Red Allen and the Kentuckians
• The World is Waiting for the Sunrise - Roger Sprung and Doc Watson
• Hello City Limits - Hugh Moore
• (Legend of the) Brown Mountain Light - Country Gentlemen
• Lonesome Road Blues - Roni Stoneman
• The Train That Carried My Girl from Town - Doc Watson
• The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake - New Lost City Ramblers
• Little Birdie - Stanley Brothers
• Rabbit in a Log - Stanley Brothers
• Grey Eagle - David and Billie Ray Johnson
• Wayfaring Stranger - Cullen Gaylean and the Virginia Mountain Boys
• Billy in the Lowground - Lonesome Strangers
• The Rebel Girl - Hazel Dickens
• Train 45 - Smiley Hobbs
• 'Neath That Cold Grey Tomb of Stone - Lilly Brothers and Don Stover
• Get Up John - Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys

The individual musicians on the tracks of this compilation are as follows.

White House Blues;

• Earl Taylor - mandolin, vocals
• Walter Hensley - banjo, vocals
• Sam Hutchins - guitar, vocals
• Vernon McIntyre - bass

• Dudley Connell - guitar, vocals
• Tom Adams - banjo, vocals
• David McLaughlin - mandolin, vocals
• Eddie Stubbs - fiddle, vocals
• Eatl Yager - bass

• Bill Monroe - mandolin, vocals
• Mac Wiseman - guitar, vocals
• Don Reno - banjo, vocals
• Benny Martin - fiddle, vocals

• Hazel Dickens - bass, vocals
• Alice Gerrard - guitar, vocals
• Lamar Grier - banjo
• Billy Baker - fiddle
• David Grisman - mandolin

• Red Allen - guitar
• Frank Wakefield - mandolin
• Bill Keith - banjo
• Fred Weisz - bass

• Harley Allen - guitar, vocals
• Mike Lilly - banjo, vocals
• Scott Adams - mandolin, vocals
• Larry Nager - bass
• David Moore, Jr - fiddle

• Curly Seckler - guitar, vocals
• Kenny Ingram - banjo, vocals
• Willis Spears - guitar, vocals
• Johnny Warren - fiddle, vocals
• J.V. Gray - bass
• Gene Wooten - dobro

• Warren Pinnix - bass, vocals
• Archie Callahan - fiddle
• Billy Edwards - banjo
• Ronald - Pinnix - guitar

• Snuffy Jenkins - banjo
• Ira Dimmery - guitar

• Red Allen - vocals
• Greg Allen - banjo, vocals
• Ron Mesing - dobro
• Harley Allen - guitar
• Dorsey Harvey Jr - mandolin
• Buddy Griffin - fiddle

• Roger Sprung - banjo
• Doc Watson - guitar
• Joe Locker - guitar
• Willie Locker - mandolin
• Ollie Philips - bass
• Bob Thomas - drums

• Hugh Moore - banjo, vocals
• Roby Huffman - guitar, vocals
• Danny Bowers - fiddle
• Parks Icenhour - guitar
• Dale Lee - bass
• David Johnson - steel guitar

• Charlie Waller - guitar, vocals
• John Duffey - mandolin, vocals
• Eddie Adcock - banjo, vocals

• Roni Stoneman - banjo The Train That Carried My Girl from Town;
  • Doc Watson - guitar, vocals
  The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake;
  • Mike Seeger - mandolin, vocals
  • John Cohen - guitar
  • Tracy Schwarz - fiddle, vocals
  Little Birdie and Rabbit in a Log;
  • Carter Stanley - guitar, vocals
  • Ralph Stanley - banjo, vocals
  • Vernon Derrick - fiddle
  • Curley Lambert - mandolin
  • Mike Seeger - bass
  Grey Eagle;
  • David Johnson - banjo
  • Billy Ray Johnson - guitar
  Wayfaring Stranger;
  • Cullen Gaylean - vocals
  • Bobby Harrison - guitar, vocals
  • David Lambeth - guitar
  Billy in the Lowground;
  • Buddy Pendleton - fiddle
  • John Herald - guitar
  • Bob Yellin - banjo
  The Rebel Girl;
  • Hazel Dickens - guitar, vocals
  • Dudley Connell - guitar
  • Tom Adams - banjo
  • Marshall Wilborn - bass
  • David McLaughlin - mandolin, fiddle
  Train 45;
  • Smiley Hobbs - banjo
  • Tom Morgan - guitar
  • Pete Kuykendall - mandolin
  • Mike Seeger - bass
  'Neath That Cold Grey Tomb of Stone;
  • Everett Lilly - mandolin, vocals
  • B. Lilly - guitar, vocals
  • Don Stover - vocals
  • Herbert Hooven - bass
  Related releases

  A Tiny Broken Heart was originally released on;

  • Won't You Come And Sing For Me, Hazel and Alice, 1973, Folkways FTS 31034