Track listing

1. "True Life Blues" (Bill Monroe
   Bill Monroe
   William Smith Monroe was an American musician who created the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader...
   
   ) – 2:28
2. "Down in the Willow Garden
   Down in the Willow Garden
   "Down in the Willow Garden", also known as "Rose Connelly" is a traditional Appalachian murder ballad about a man facing the gallows for the murder of his lover: he gave her poisoned wine, stabbed her, and threw her in a river. It originated in the 19th century, probably in Ireland, before becoming...
   
   " (Traditional) – 4:30
3. "My Long Journey Home" (Monroe) – 2:25
4. "Little Willie" (Traditional) – 2:56
5. "Highway of Sorrow" (Monroe, Pyle) – 3:26
6. "Sophronie" (Delmore. (Mullins) – 3:00
7. "My Aching Heart" (Sloan) – 2:19
8. "Close By Little Robert" (Monroe) – 2:32
9. "Feast Here Tonight" (Traditional) – 2:32
10. "Leavin' Home" (Traditional) – 4:07
11. "Little Cabin Home on the Hill" (Flatt, Monroe) – 3:22
12. "I'm Coming Back (But I Don't Know When)" (Monroe) – 3:25
13. "Salty Dog Blues" (Morris) – 2:26
14. "If I Lose" (Stanley) – 2:16
15. "Sad and Lonesome Day" (Traditional) – 3:05
16. "My Little Georgia Rose" (Monroe) – 3:04
17. "Foggy Mountain Top" (Carter Family) – 2:37
18. "I'm My Own Grandpaw" (Jaffe, Latham) – 3:11
19. "Pretty Polly
    Pretty Polly (ballad)
    "Pretty Polly", "The Gosport Tragedy" or "The Cruel Ship's Carpenter" is a traditional English-language folk song found in the British Isles, Canada, and the Appalachian region of North America, among other places....
    
    " (Stanley) – 5:10
20. "Home Is Where the Heart Is" (Gately, Talley) – 1:57
21. "Nine Pound Hammer" (Merle Travis
    Merle Travis
    Merle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the life and exploitation of coal miners. Among his many well-known songs are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues" and "Dark as a Dungeon"...
    
    ) – 2:16
22. "Memories of Mother and Dad" (Price) – 3:24
23. "Teardrops in My Eyes" (Allen, Sutton) – 2:57
24. "House of Gold" (Williams) – 2:47

Personnel

• David Grisman
  David Grisman
  David Grisman is an American bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music.-Biography:Grisman grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey...
  
   – mandolin, vocals
• Harley Allen – vocals
• Red Allen – guitar, vocals
• Jim Buchanan – violin
• Sam Bush
  Sam Bush
  Sam Bush is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.- History :...
  
   – violin
• Porter Church – banjo
• Mike Compton – mandolin
• J.D. Crowe – banjo
• Stuart Duncan
  Stuart Duncan
  Stuart Duncan is a bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo. Born in Quantico, Virginia and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band, he has been a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band since 1985, and is a much-in-demand session musician...
  
   – violin
• Pat Enright – guitar, vocals
• Mark Hembree – bass
• Bobby Hicks
  Bobby Hicks
  Bobby Hicks is a Grammy Award bluegrass fiddler and a professional musician with more than fifty years of experience.Hicks was born in Newton, North Carolina and learned to play the fiddle before he was 9 years old. He attended several fiddlers conventions and at the age of eleven, he won the...
  
   – violin
• Roy Huskey, Jr.
  Roy Huskey, Jr.
  Roy Milton Huskey was a prominent American upright bass player in country music from Nashville, Tennessee. Huskey performed alongside musicians such as Chet Atkins, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, George Jones, Steve Earle, Doc Watson and many others...
  
   – bass
• Jim Kerwin – bass
• Del McCoury
  Del McCoury
  Delano Floyd McCoury is an American bluegrass musician. As leader of the Del McCoury Band, he plays guitar and sings lead vocals along with his two sons, Ronnie McCoury and Rob McCoury, who play mandolin and banjo respectively...
  
   – guitar, vocals
• Alan O'Bryant – banjo, vocals
• Herb Pedersen
  Herb Pedersen
  Herb Pedersen is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, and singer-songwriter who has played a variety of musical styles over the past forty years including country, bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, folk, folk rock, country rock, and has worked with numerous musicians in many different...
  
   – banjo, vocals
• Tony Rice
  Tony Rice
  Tony Rice is an American acoustic guitarist and bluegrass musician. He is considered one of the most influential acoustic guitar players in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz.Rice spans the range of acoustic music, from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New...
  
   – guitar, vocals
• Curly Seckler – vocals
• Ricky Skaggs
  Ricky Skaggs
  Rickie Lee "Ricky" Skaggs is a country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, and banjo.-Early career:...
  
   – violin, vocals
• Doc Watson
  Doc Watson
  Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded...
  
  – guitar, vocals