True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe

True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe is a compilation album

Compilation album

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of bluegrass music

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

released through Sugar Hill Records

Sugar Hill Records

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on October 15, 1996. In 1997, the album won Todd Phillips

Todd Phillips (musician)

Todd Phillips is an American double bassist. He is the bassist of choice for many of the most innovative, as well as traditional, acoustic instrumental and bluegrass recordings made since the mid-1970s...

the Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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for Best Bluegrass Album

Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album

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, as the producer.

Track listing

"Molly and Tenbrooks" – 3:13
"True Life Blues" – 2:45
"I'm on My Way to the Old Home" – 2:08
"Highway of Sorrow" – 2:53
"Old Ebenezer Scrooge" – 2:46
"Memories of You" – 3:06
"Rawhide" – 3:07
"Can't You Hear Me Callin'" – 4:07
"Letter from My Darling" – 3:32
"Sitting Alone in the Moonlight" – 3:16
"Big Mon" – 3:01
"Get Down on Your Knees and Pray" – 3:12
"Used to Be" – 2:03
"Scotland" – 3:08
"Travelin' This Lonesome Road" – 3:02
"Heavy Traffic Ahead Bill Monroe" – 2:25
"Little Cabin Home on the Hill" – 3:49

Personnel

Joseph Bartoldus – Engineer
Sam Bush – Mandolin
Vassar Clements – Fiddle
Mike Compton – Mandolin
Donivan Cowart – Engineer
Gary Denton – Engineer
Jerry Douglas – Dobro
Stuart Duncan – Fiddle
Pat Enright – Guitar, Vocals
Lester Flatt – Composer
Greg Garing – Mandolin, Vocals
Rainer Gembalczk – Mastering
Richard Greene – Fiddle
David Grier – Guitar
David Grisman – Mandolin
John Hartford – Banjo, Fiddle, Composer, Vocals
Bradley Hartman – Engineer
Bobby Hicks – Fiddle
Steve Horowitz – Engineer
Kathy Kallick – Guitar, Vocals
Laurie Lewis – Fiddle, Vocals
Mike Marshall – Mandolin, Engineer
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

Ronnie McCoury – Mandolin, Vocals
Sue Meyer – Design
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...

– Composer, Performer
Jim Nunally – Guitar, Engineer
Scott Nygaard – Guitar
Mollie O'Brien – Vocals
Tim O'Brien – Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals
Alan O'Bryant – Vocals
Herb Pedersen – Banjo, Vocals
Todd Phillips – Bass, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Barry Poss – Executive Producer
Pete Pyle – Composer
John Reischman – Mandolin
Peter Rowan – Guitar, Vocals
Tom Size – Engineer
Mark Slagle – Engineer
Craig Smith – Banjo
J.B. Smith – Composer
Chris Thile – Mandolin
Elizabeth Tormes – Photography
Tony Trischka – Banjo
Doc Watson – Composer
Roland White – Mandolin, Vocals

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