Bill Monroe Live 1964 documents Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys in performance during one of the most consequential years of Monroe's working life — the year his Decca singles like Highway of Sorrow and I'll Meet You in Church Sunday Morning were reshaping the post-Flatt-and-Scruggs Blue Grass Boys, and the same year his April appearance at Oberlin College helped introduce his music to a generation of northern folk-revival college students. The recordings catch the band in a working state Monroe rarely matched in the studio — a tighter, faster, and more confrontational reading of his catalog, the music of an artist defending his territory against the bands he had spawned.
Tracklist
- 1 Introduction 1:34
- 2 Oh what does the deep sea say 3:09
- 3 Midnight on the Stormy Deep alt version 4:04
- 4 East Tennessee Blues alt version 3:01
- 5 Rabbit in the Log alt version 2:40
- 6 Watson Blues alt version 3:31
- 7 What Would You Give in Exchange For Your Soul alt version 3:09
- 8 Paddy on the Turnpike alt version 2:26
- 9 Muleskinner Blues alt version 4:23
- 10 Can't you hear me calling 2:25
- 11 True Life Blues alt version 2:48
- 12 Rocky Road Blues alt version 2:33
- 13 The panhandle country 2:15
- 14 I Wonder Where You Are Tonight alt version 3:13
- 15 Gotta Travel On alt version 2:32
- 16 There is an old old house 2:55
- 17 Little Georgia Rose alt version 2:56
- 18 I'm one of God's sheep 2:05
- 19 Y’all Come alt version 2:20
- 20 Rawhide alt version 2:31
- 21 On and On alt version 2:46
- 22 Big Sandy River alt version 3:02
- 23 Use to be 1:31
- 24 Live and Let Live alt version 2:39
- 25 I’m Walking the Dog alt version 2:01
- 26 Uncle Pen alt version 2:43
- 27 Kentucky Waltz alt version 3:15
- 28 Footprints in the Snow alt version 2:39
