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Live at the Opry

Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys

Album · 1989 · MCAD-42286

Live at the Opry was released by MCA Records in 1989 (MCAD-42286). Eleven of its twelve tracks were recorded at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville on 5 May 1989, fifty years after Bill Monroe won a regular spot on the show in October 1939; “New Mule Skinner Blues” comes from 11 May 1989 at the Capitol Plaza Theater in Charleston, West Virginia.

The Blue Grass Boys on the recordings are Monroe on mandolin, Tom Ewing on guitar, Blake Williams on banjo, Clarence “Tater” Tate on fiddle and Billy Rose on bass. Monroe sings lead on “New Mule Skinner Blues,” “Molly and Tenbrooks” and “Footprints in the Snow,” and shares the lead on “I’m Working on a Building” with Ewing. Ewing sings lead on “Sittin’ Alone in the Moonlight,” “Precious Memories,” “My Sweet Darlin’,” “In the Pines” and “Love, Please Come Home,” with Monroe on tenor, and Williams and Tate sing the lower parts on several. “Rawhide” and “Pike County Breakdown” are instrumentals, and the album ends with a short version of the Opry theme, “Watermelon Hanging on the Vine.”

Tracklist

  1. 1 New mule skinner blues 3:31
  2. 2 Molly and Tenbrooks alt version 3:07
  3. 3 Footprints in the Snow alt version 2:39
  4. 4 Sittin' alone in the moonlight 2:45
  5. 5 Precious Memories alt version 2:49
  6. 6 Rawhide alt version 2:31
  7. 7 My sweet darlin' 2:02
  8. 8 In the Pines alt version 3:10
  9. 9 Love Please Come Home Source Recording Leon Jackson · key B · 125 bpm 2:20
  10. 10 Pike County Breakdown alt version 2:36
  11. 11 I'm working on a building 2:35
  12. 12 Theme [Watermelon hanging on the vine] 0:26

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