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The First Whippoorwill
Composer: Bill Monroe

Performed by the Good Old Boys in February 1975 with Jerry Garcia sitting in on banjo.

This song is sometimes confused with the Bradley Kincaid song The First Whippoorwill Song.



Jerry Garcia recordings

info Good Old Boys Live: Drink Up And Go Home, Good Old Boys, 2018

Peter Rowan recordings

info The First Whippoorwill, Peter Rowan, 1985
info Chill-Out Country, Various Artists (Peter Rowan), 2013
info Best of the Sugar Hill Years, Peter Rowan, 2007

Other recordings


This list is not intended to be comprehensive.

no info Single (Christmas Time's A-Coming / The First Whippoorwill), Bill Monroe, 1951
no info Single (I'm On My Way To The Old Home / First Whippoorwill), Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys, 1952
info Bill Monroe and Charlie Monroe, Bill Monroe and Charlie Monroe, 1968
no info Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys (1950-60), Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys, 1974
no info Next Train South, Dub Crouch, Norman Ford And The Bluegrass Rounders, 1974
info The Best Of Bill Monroe, Bill Monroe, 1975
no info Pickin' And Singin', Barrier Brothers, 1977
no info Cold Wind, Joe Val And The New England Bluegrass Boys, 1983
info Bluegrass 1950-1958, Bill Monroe, 1990
info In The Pines, Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys, 1993
info The Music Of Bill Monroe, Bill Monroe, 1994
info Bluegrass 1970-1979, Bill Monroe, 1995
no info Coming Of Age, The Rarely Herd, 1998
no info Barnstormin', James Reams & the Barnstormers, 2001
no info Bob Perilla's Big Hillbilly Bluegrass, 2005
no info Castle Studio, 1950-1951: Complete Sessions, Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys, 2017
no info Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, 2018

 
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