1. New Mule Skinner Blues - Bill Monroe, Rodgers, Jimmie [1]
2. My Little Georgia Rose - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
3. Uncle Pen - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
4. Rawhide - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
5. Kentucky Waltz - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
6. When the Cactus Is in Bloom - Bill Monroe, Rodgers, Jimmie [1]
7. Get Down on Your Knees and Pray - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
8. In the Pines - Bill Monroe, Bryant, Slim
9. Footprints in the Snow - Bill Monroe, Traditional
10. Walking in Jerusalem - Bill Monroe, Traditional
11. Get Up John - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
12. On and On - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
13. I'm Working on a Building - Bill Monroe, Carter, A.P.
14. Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
15. Roanoke - Bill Monroe, Ahr, Joe
16. Goodbye Old Pal - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
17. Molly and Tenbrooks - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
18. I'm Sitting on Top of the World - Bill Monroe, Henderson, Ray
19. I Saw the Light - Bill Monroe, Williams, Hank [1]
20. Scotland - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
21. Panhandle Country - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
22. Gotta Travel On - Bill Monroe, Clayton, Paul
23. Big Mon - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
24. Linda Lou - Bill Monroe, Butler, Carl
25. Lonesome Road Blues - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
26. Time Changes Everything - Bill Monroe, Duncan, Tommy
27. I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
28. Toy Heart - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
29. Live and Let Live - Bill Monroe, Sullivan, Gene
30. Old Joe Clark - Bill Monroe, Traditional
31. Columbus Stockade Blues - Bill Monroe, Traditional
32. Drifting Too Far From the Shore - Bill Monroe, Traditional
33. Somebody Touched Me - Bill Monroe, Donny, Harold
34. Jimmy Brown the Newsboy - Bill Monroe, Carter, A.P.
35. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Bill Monroe, Williams, Hank [1]
36. Devil's Dream - Bill Monroe, Traditional
37. Highway of Sorrow - Bill Monroe, Pyle, Pete
38. Roll on Buddy, Roll On - Bill Monroe, Wilburn, Doyle
39. (We're Goin') Just Over in the Gloryland - Bill Monroe, Traditional
40. Fire on the Mountain - Bill Monroe, Cody, Bill
41. Long Black Veil - Bill Monroe, Wilkin, Marijohn
42. I Wonder Where You Are Tonight - Bill Monroe, Bond, Johnny
43. Dusty Miller - Bill Monroe, Traditional
44. Midnight on the Stormy Deep - Bill Monroe, Traditional
45. Sally Goodin - Bill Monroe, Traditional
46. Walls of Time - Bill Monroe, Rowan, Peter
47. I Haven't Seen Mary in Years - Bill Monroe, Black, Damon
48. With Body and Soul - Bill Monroe, Stauffer, Virginia
49. Walk Softly on My Heart - Bill Monroe, Landers, Jake
50. My Last Days on Earth - Bill Monroe, Monroe, Bill [1]
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Distilling the four-disc Music of Bill Monroe down to 50 songs, this double-disc Anthology is a fine survey of the bluegrass pioneer's career. Picking up in 1950 after Monroe's breakthrough Columbia tenure, this set documents his 30-year Decca period and its song list reads like a Bluegrass 101 songbook, offering classic after classic. Like the greatest of jazz bandleaders, Monroe's Blue Grass Boys band was a proving ground for aspiring bluegrass musicians and a springboard for their future solo success, with each incarnation of the group displaying its own distinct character. Vocal powerhouse Jimmy Martin helped propel Monroe's stellar early-'50s band while other contributors include singers Del McCoury and Peter Rowan and elite pickers such as banjoists Bill Keith and Don Stover and fiddlers Richard Greene, Kenny Baker, Bobby Hicks, and Vassar Clements. Of course, Big Mon's fiery high tenor vocals and feverish mandolin are the common threads. --Marc Greilsamer
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Anthology
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2003-04-22)
- Publisher: Mca Nashville
- Label: Mca Nashville
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Studio: Mca Nashville
- Average Customer Review:
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- Sales Rank in Music: #6183
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Summary: Essential 2008-03-24
Comment: This anthology is an essential addition to the library of listeners and collectors of bluegrass and old-time music.
I mean, come on; it's Bill Monroe, buy it if you don't already have it.
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Summary: The Anthology of the man who invented bluegrass... 2007-05-28
Comment: The quality of the recordings is quite good, the selections are representative of Monroe's work, and the span of the music is several decades of Bill Monroe's career. It is a pleasure to listen to some of these important tunes for the first time. A good mix of instrumentals, old timey, and new-fangled (for that time). There are two CDs, so there is plenty of great music. Long live Bill Monroe. Buy a Mandolin.
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Summary: Father Of Bluegrass 2007-05-22
Comment: This is a must have CD. There are 50 songs on this 2 CD set. The recordings are of great quality. It comes with a 23 page booklet with Bill Monroe history, pictures, and info on the songs. This is a very worthy purchase and a must have for every Bluegrass lover.
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Summary: Essential 2003-07-18
Comment: Combining hillbilly, blues, gospel and folk ballads, Bill Monroe made his lightning mandolin a lead instrument within his tightly syncopated acoustic stringband style. In the process, he singlehandedly create his own genre of music. Well annotated and remastered, Anthology starts chronologically with "New Mule Skinner Blues" from his debut 1950 Decca session and ends with 1981's eerie "My Last Days On Earth" (inspired by a bout with colon cancer). Monroe redid for Decca some songs he'd done on Columbia before angrily leaving that label after it signed the rival Stanley Brothers. The 1954 version of his signature "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" - recorded right after Elvis' did it for Sun - picks up speed compared to his 1946 original on Columbia. One surprise is a 1951 rendition of his standard "Kentucky Waltz" with drums and organ. Some songs are autobiographical: "Uncle Pen" honors the uncle who took him in as a cross-eyed teen-aged orphan while "My Little Georgia Rose" refers to the daughter his long-time bassist Bessie Lee Mauldin bore him. Half the 50 cuts found here aren't on his most extensive package, MCA's four-CD The Music Of Bill Monroe: 1936-1994, making this an essential purchase for Monroe fans.
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Summary: A compact, satisfying overview of Monroe's Decca/MCA years 2003-06-12
Comment: Quite possibly the ideal Bill Monroe set... This 2-CD retrospective is probably the perfect middleground between the humongous, ultimo-collector's box sets put out by Bear Family (or MCA's previous "Music Of Bill Monroe" collection, which clocked in at four whole CDs) and the more demure cheapo single-disc "best-ofs" that lie at the other extreme. Fifty songs on two CDs is probably just about right for most eager, twang-loving record buyers: maybe not every great, classic song is on here, but chances are you'll actually listen to this collection more than once. Nice sound quality and great song selection: the 1940s and 1970s are both skipped in their entirety, but one disc covering the 'Fifties and a second one covering the 'Sixties is still pretty sweet. The friendly, generous liner notes also provide all the info on recording personnel, which is particularly useful when tracking the efforts of young'uns such as Peter Rowan, Richard Greene and Bill Keith, who apprenticed in the mid-'60s editions of the Blue Grass Boys, before going on to get found the modern bluegrass movement. Truly, a top-notch collection... highly recommended!
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