Celebrating 50 Years of Del McCoury, released in 2009, marks a half-century of performing for one of bluegrass music's most enduring and beloved figures. Del McCoury, who had been playing professionally since the late 1950s when he joined Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys, assembled a career distinguished by stylistic consistency and vocal excellence. The Del McCoury Band, anchored by his sons Ronnie on mandolin and Rob on banjo, became one of the most tight-knit family units in the music's history. The album acknowledges McCoury's rare achievement: maintaining the highest standards of hard-core traditional bluegrass while building an audience that extends well beyond the genre's core constituency.
Tracklist
- 1 I Wonder Where You Are Tonight 3:28
- 2 Remembering 2:24
- 3 Rain & Snow 3:01
- 4 Are You Teasin' Me? 2:18
- 5 Dreams 3:42
- 6 White House Blues 2:15
- 7 Dark Hollow 2:53
- 8 You're the Girl of My Dreams 3:07
- 9 Don't Stop the Music 3:28
- 10 The Prisoner's Song 3:08
- 11 Big Rock in the Road 2:11
- 12 High on the Mountain 3:05
- 13 Rain Please Go Away 2:45
- 14 Pick Me Up on Your Way Down 2:41
- 15 Good Man Like Me 2:36
- 16 I've Endured 2:27
- 17 Bluest Man in Town 3:30
- 18 Don't You Call My Name 2:20
- 19 Evil Hearted Woman 3:05
- 20 Loggin' Man 2:08
- 21 Loneliness & Desperation 2:29
- 22 I Feel the Blues Movin' In 3:54
- 23 Don't Let My Love Get in the Way 2:32
- 24 Who Showed Who 3:21
- 25 Undone in Sorrow 2:33
- 26 Take Me With You to the Mountains 3:31
- 27 Eli Renfro 3:21
- 28 Queen Anne's Lace 3:36
- 29 Nashville Cats 3:42
- 30 Beauty of My Dreams 2:39
- 31 Cold Hard Facts 2:49
- 32 Black Jack County Chains 3:29
- 33 A Far Cry 2:37
- 34 Backslidin' Blues 3:28
- 35 50/50 Chance 2:57
- 36 City of Stone 3:59
- 37 Never Grow Up Boy 3:22
- 38 Asheville Turnaround 2:35
- 39 Learnin' the Blues 3:23
- 40 Cheek to Cheek With the Blues 2:27
- 41 1952 Vincent Black Lightning 4:02
- 42 Let an Old Racehorse Run 3:29
- 43 Same Kind of Crazy 2:48
- 44 I'm Afraid I Forgot the Feeling 3:16
- 45 All Aboard 3:59
- 46 It's Just the Night 4:01
- 47 Nothin' Special 3:12
- 48 Unequal Love 3:23
- 49 Mill Towns 3:27
- 50 My Love Will Not Change 4:14