Grateful Dead Family Discography: Going To The Races

Going To The Races

Composer: Carter Stanley

Going To The Races was performed by Old & In The Way in 1973.

Carter Stanley wrote the words, the tune is that of Let Her Go, God Bless Her. The Stanley Brothers performed the song live but did not record it in the studio.

On most recordings the title is Going To The Races. On some, as on the Old & In The Way release, it is Goin' To The Races.

Old & In The Way

Breakdown, Old & In The Way, 1997
Live At The Boarding House: The Complete Shows, Old & In The Way, 2013

Other recordings

no info Single (Going To The Races / Heavenward Bound), Country Gentlemen, 1957
Play It Like It Is, The Country Gentlemen, 1969
Going Back to the Blue Ridge Mountains, The Country Gentlemen, 1973
no info First Edition, Blue Velvet, 1977
Shadows of the Past, Stanley Brothers, 1981
Stanley Series, Vol. 3, No. 3, Stanley Brothers, 1990
no info That Home Far Away, Creek Bend, 1992
no info Just for the Record, Dry Branch Fire Squad, 1993
Muleskinner Live - Original Television Soundtrack, Muleskinner, 1994
The Early Rebel Recordings 1962-1971, The Country Gentlemen, 1998
no info White House, White House, 2003
08/09/13, Omaha, NE, Yonder Mountain String Band, 2013
Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey, Various Artists, 2018