Pike County Breakdown

Recordings

Single, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, 1952
Single, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, 1952
EP, Green Valley Boys, 1953
EP (New Mule Skinner Blues/Uncle Pen/Blue Moon Of Kentucky/Pike County Breakdown), Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1956
Live At McClure, Ralph Stanley & Guests, 1976
Pickin' And Singin', Barrier Brothers, 1977
Classic Bluegrass Instrumentals, Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys, 1987
Live at the Opry: Celebrating 50 Years on the Grand Ole Opry, Bill Monroe, 1989
Bluegrass 1950-1958, Bill Monroe, 1990
Bluegrass 1959-1969, Bill Monroe, 1991
Complete Mercury Sessions, Flatt and Scruggs, 1992
1948-1959, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, 1992
Don't Mean Maybe, John Hickman, 1994
The Music Of Bill Monroe, Bill Monroe, 1994
Bluegrass '95, Various Artists, 1995
Stanley Series, Vol. 3 #4, Stanley Brothers, 1996
Out Of The Frying Pan, Jon Sholle, 1997
Single, Kentucky Mountain Boys, 19??
Single, Fred McFalls and the Carolina Mountain Boys, 19??
Bluegrass Special, Red Allen, 19??
Single, J. C. Young, 19??
American Traveler, Bill Monroe, 2000
33 Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals, Clarence White, 2000
July 1963: Two Days at Newport, Bill Monroe, 2003
The Essential Earl Scruggs, Earl Scruggs, 2004
Bluegrass Holiday, J.D.Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys, 2007 (CD bonus track)
Bluegrass 1981-1994: My Last Days on Earth, Bill Monroe, 2007
Front Porch Pickin', Various Artists (Eanes / Atkins / Clements), 2008

Notes

An instrumental played by the Wildwood Boys at the Tangent in Palo Alto on February 23rd 1963.

Authorship uncertain. On-line HFA and BMI sites and some LP/CDs credit Rupert Jones as writer. Other LP/CDs credit Bill Monroe. In Bluegrass 1950-1955 Bill Monroe by Charles K Wolff and Neil V Rosenberg, Bill Monroe is quoted as saying "I wanted to write something and title it after something up in the eastern part of Kentucky. You remember Sweet Betsy From The Pike. I listened to that and wrote the Pike County Breakdown.