True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe

Various Artists

Sugar Hill 2209

David Grisman plays on one track of this tribute to the music of Bill Monroe. Vassar Clements plays on five tracks and Peter Rowan plays on two tracks.

Tracks

• Molly and Tenbrooks (Monroe)
• True Life Blues (Monroe)
• I'm on My Way Back to the Old Home (Monroe)
• Highway of Sorrow (Monroe/Pyle)
• Old Ebenezer Scrooge (Monroe)
• Memories of You (Smith)
• Rawhide (Monroe)
• Can't You Hear Me Calling (Monroe)
• Letter from My Darling (Monroe)
• Sitting Alone in the Moonlight (Monroe)
• Big Mon (Monroe)
• Get Down on Your Knees and Pray (Monroe)
• Used to Be (Monroe - additional verse by Doc Watson)
• Scotland (Monroe)
• Travelin' This Lonesome Road (Monroe)
• Heavy Traffic Ahead (Monroe)
• Little Cabin Home on the Hill (Monroe/Flatt)

The musicians on each track of this tribute are as follows.

Molly and Tenbrooks;

• Alan O'Bryant - vocals
• Craig Smith banjo
• Stuart Duncan - fiddle
• Mike Compton - mandolin
• David Grier - guitar
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Laurie Lewis - fiddle, vocals
• Kathy Kallick - guitar, vocals
• Mike Marshall - mandolin
• Tony Trischka - banjo
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Del McCoury - guitar, vocals
• Ronnie McCoury - mandolin, vocals
• Vassar Clements - fiddle
• Craig Smith banjo
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Tim O'Brien - mandolin, vocals
• Scott Nygaard - guitar
• Stuart Duncan - fiddle
• Todd Phillips - bass

• David Grier - guitar
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Alan O'Bryant - banjo, vocals
• Pat Enright - guitar, vocals
• Stuart Duncan - fiddle
• Mike Compton - mandolin
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Ronnie McCoury - mandolin
• David Grier - guitar
• Craig Smith banjo
• Stuart Duncan - fiddle
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Del McCoury - guitar, vocals
• Ronnie McCoury - mandolin, vocals
• Vassar Clements - fiddle
• Jerry Douglas - dobro
• Craig Smith banjo
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Peter Rowan - guitar, vocals
• Greg Garing - mandolin, vocals
• Bobby Hicks - fiddle
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Mollie O'Brien - vocals
• Tim O'Brien - guitar, vocals
• Ronnie McCoury - mandolin
• Richard Greene - fiddle
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Sam Bush - mandolin
• Jerry Douglas - dobro

• Alan O'Bryant - banjo, vocals
• Del McCoury - guitar, vocals
• Ronnie McCoury - vocals
• Roland White - mandolin, vocals

• Kathy Kallick - guitar, vocals
• Laurie Lewis - fiddle, vocals
• Jim Nunally - guitar
• John Reischman - mandolin
• Tony Trischka - banjo
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Vassar Clements - fiddle
• Richard Greene - fiddle
• Chris Thile - mandolin
• Scott Nygaard - guitar
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Peter Rowan - guitar, vocals
• David Grisman - mandolin
• Herb Pedersen - banjo, vocals
• Vassar Clements - fiddle, vocals
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Pat Enright - guitar, vocals
• Vassar Clements - fiddle
• Jerry Douglas - dobro
• Ronnie McCoury - mandolin
• Todd Phillips - bass

• John Hartford - banjo, fiddle, vocals:
• Ronnie McCoury - guitar, vocals
• Mike Compton - mandolin
• Todd Phillips - bass

• Producer - Todd Phillips
• Engineers - Tom Size, Donovan Cowart, David ferguson, Todd Phillips, Jim Nunally, Mike Marshall, Mark Slagle, Gary Denton, Steve Horowitz, Randy Rood, Joe Bartoldus, Bradley Hartman
• Mixing - Todd Phillips
• Mastering - Rainer Gembalczyk
• Executive Producer - Barry Poss
• Liner notes - John Harley Fox, Todd Phillips
• Liner quotes - Roland White, David Grisman
• Design - Sue Meyer
• Cover and page 5 photo - courtesy of the Country Music Foundation
• Back of booklet and other photography - Elizabeth Tormes
• Recorded at Tomland, Pacheco; The Truck, Nashville; Gatorland, Oakland; 1103 Studio, Nashville; Stagg ST. Studio, Van Nuys; E.R.C. Emeryville; Current Sounds, New York; Trace Sound, Nashville
• Mixed at Gatorland, Oakland

Travelin' This Lonesome Road was subsequently included on;

• Choice Picks, Various Artists, 2000