Title: Blue Moon of Kentucky 1936-49
Artist: Monroe, Bill
Label: Bear Family
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4000127163998
Genre: Bluegrass, Box Sets

Between 1936 and 1949 Bill Monroe made a series of recordings that laid the foundation for what is today called bluegrass music. This collection brings together - for the first time -the complete works from that seminal era, all remastered with state-of-the-art technology from first generation sources.The set includes all 60 of the legendary Monroe Brothers duets from 1936-38; all 16 of the 1940-41 performances that marked the very first appearance of Bill Monroe's recordings under his own name; and all of the classic Columbia sessions from 1945-49, including the revolutionary sides with Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and Chubby Wise. An added bonus is the inclusion of every alternate take from the Columbia sessions, a total of 50 previously unheard and unreleased out-takes, including an un-numbered master of a gospel song that was not even known to exist.This collection includes the original versions of masterworks like What Will You Give In Exchange For Your Soul, Orange Blossom Special, True Life Blues, Blue Moon Of Kentucky andI'm Going BackTo Old Kentucky.It is a breathtaking survey that presents the definitive chronicle of the ground-breaking recordings of a man who helped change the face of American music.Altogether, this set includes more than 170 recordings, as well as an LP-sized hardcover-book that includes rare photographs, a newly researched biography by Charles Wolfe, and a complete discography by Neil V. Rosenberg.

Tracks:
1.1 My Long Journey Home
1.2 What Is Home Without Love
1.3 What Would You Give in Exchange?
1.4 Little Red Shoes
1.5 Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy
1.6 On Some Foggy Mountain Top
1.7 Drifting Too Far from the Shore
1.8 In My Dear Old Southern Home
1.9 New River Train
1.10 This World Is Not My Home
1.11 Watermelon Am Hangin' on That Vine
1.12 On the Banks of the Ohio
1.13 Do You Call That Religion?
1.14 God Holds the Future in His Hands
1.15 You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley
1.16 Six Months Ain't Long
1.17 Just a Song of Old Kentucky
1.18 Don't Forget Me
1.19 I'm Going
1.20 Darling Corey
1.21 My Saviour's Train
1.22 I Am Thinking Tonight of the Old Folks
1.23 Dreamed I Searched Heaven for You
1.24 The Old Cross Road
1.25 The Forgotten Soldier Boy
1.26 My Read of a Place That's Called Heaven
1.27 Will the Circle Be Unbroken
1.28 The Stains Go Marching in
1.29 Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
1.30 Where Is My Sailor Baby
1.31 I Am Ready to Go
1.32 What Would the Profit Be
1.33 Some Glad Day
1.34 I Have Found the Way
1.35 I Am Going That Way
1.36 Kate Cline
1.37 Roll, on Buddy
1.38 Weeping Willow Tree
1.39 I'll Live on
1.40 Oh, Hide You in the Blood
1.41 What Would You Give in Exchange - Part. 2
1.42 On That Gospel Ship
1.43 What Would You Give in Exchange - Part 3
1.44 Let Us Be Lovers Again
1.45 All the Good Times Are Passed and Gone
1.46 What Would You Give in Exchange - Part. 4
1.47 On My Way to Glory
1.48 My Last Moving Day
1.49 He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
1.50 Sinner You Better Get Ready
1.51 Have a Feast Here Tonight
1.52 Goodbye Maggie
1.53 Rollin' on
1.54 The Old Ma'n Story
1.55 I've Still Got Ninety-Nine
1.56 Little Joe
1.57 A Beautiful Life
1.58 Pearly Gates
1.59 On My Way Back Home
1.60 When Our Lord Shall Come Again
1.61 Mule Skinner Blues
1.62 No Letter in the Mail
1.63 Cryin' Holy Unto the Lord
1.64 Six White Horses
1.65 Dog House Blues
1.66 I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do
1.67 Katy Hill (Instrumental)
1.68 Tennesse Blues
1.69 Shake My Mother Hand for Me
1.70 Were You There
1.71 Blue Yodel, No. 7
1.72 The Coupon Song
1.73 Orange Blosson Special
1.74 Honky Tonk Swing (Instrumental)
1.75 In the Pines
1.76 Back Up and Push Instrumental)
1.77 Rocky Road Blues
1.78 Kentucky Waltz
1.79 True Life Blues
1.80 Nobody Loves Me
1.81 Goodbye Old Pal
1.82 Footprints in the Snow
1.83 I'll Have a New Life
1.84 Bluegrass Special (Instrumental)
1.85 Come Back to Me in My Dreams
1.86 Heavy Traffic Ahead
1.87 Why Did You Wander
1.88 Blue Moon of Kentucky
1.89 Blue Moon of Kentucky
1.90 Toy Heart
1.91 Summertime Is Past and Gone
1.92 Mansions for Me
1.93 Mother's Only Sleeping
1.94 Blue Yodel No. 4
1.95 Will You Be Loving Another Man?
1.96 How Will I Explain About You?
1.97 Shining Path
1.98 Wicked Path of Sin
1.99 I'm Going Back Toold Kentucky
1.100 It's Mighty Dark to Travel
1.101 I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling
1.102 Little Cabin Home on TH Ehill
1.103 My Rose of Old Kentucky
1.104 Blue Grass Breakdown (Instrumental)
1.105 Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
1.106 The Old Cross Road
1.107 That Home Above
1.108 Remember the Cross
1.109 Little Community Church
1.110 Along About Daybreak
1.111 When You Are Lonely
1.112 Molly and Tenbrooks
1.113 Shine Hallelujah, Shine
1.114 I'm Traveling on and on
1.115 Can't You Heart Me Callin'
1.116 Travelin' This Lonesome Road
1.117 Blue Grass Stomp
1.118 The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band
1.119 Kentucky Waltz (Take 2)
1.120 True Life Blues (Takes 2)
1.121 True Life Blues (Takes 3)
1.122 True Life Blues (Takes 4)
1.123 Nobody Loves Me (BD)
1.124 Nobody Love Me (Takes 1)
1.125 Nobody Lovesme (Takes 3)
1.126 Goodbye Old Pal Takes 2
1.127 Footprints in the Snow (Take 2)
1.128 Bluegrass Special (Instrumental Takes 2)
1.129 Bluegrass Special (Instrumental) (Takes 3)
1.130 Heavy Traffic Ahead (Take 2)
1.131 Why Did You Wander (Takes 2)
1.132 Summertime Is Past and Gone (Takes BD1)
1.133 Summertime Is Past and Gone (Takes BD2)
1.134 Summertime Is Past and Gone (Takes 2)
1.135 Summertime Is Past An Gone (Takes BD3)
1.136 Blue Yodel No. 4 (Takes 2)
1.137 Will You Be Loving Another Man? (Takes 2)
1.138 How Will I Explain About You? (Takes 2)
1.139 How Will I Explain About You (Takes 3)
1.140 Wicked Path of Sin (Takes 2)
1.141 It's Mighty Dark to Travel (Take 2)
1.142 I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky (BD)
1.143 I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky (Takes 2)
1.144 It's Mighty Dark to Travel (Take 3)
1.145 Little Cabin Home on the Hill (Take 2)
1.146 My Rose of Old Kentucky (Take 2)
1.147 Blue Grass Breakdown (Instrumental) (Takes 2)
1.148 Blue Grass Breakdown (Instrumental) (Takes 3)
1.149 Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong (BD 1)
1.150 Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong (BD 2)
1.151 Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong (Takes 2)
1.152 Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong (Takes 3)
1.153 The Old Cross Road (BD 1)
1.154 The Old Cross Road (BD 2)
1.155 The Old Cross Road (BD 3)
1.156 The Old Cross Road (Takes 3)
1.157 That Home Above (BD)
1.158 Remember the Cross (Take 2)
1.159 Along About Daybreak (Take 2)
1.160 Little Community Church (BD)
1.161 Little Community Church (Takes 2)
1.162 Along About Daybreak (BD)
1.163 Molly and Tenbrooks (Take 2)
1.164 Shine Hallelujah, Shine (Take 2)
1.165 I'm Traveling on and on (Take2)
1.166 Can't You Hear Me Callin' (BD)
1.167 Can't You Hear Me Callin' (Takes 2)
1.168 Can't You Hear Me Callin' (Takes 3)
1.169 Can't You Hear Me Callin' (Takes 4)
1.170 Travelin' This Lonesome Road (Take 2)
1.171 Blue Grass Stomp (Instrumental) (BD)
1.172 Blue Grass Stomp (Instrumental)(Takes 2)
1.173 Blue Grass Stomp (Instrumental)(Takes 3)
1.174 The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band (Takes 2)
1.175 The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band (Takes 3)
1.176 The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band (Take 2)