Till the End of the World Rolls Round, from the May 19, 1954 Mercury session at Nashville's Castle Studio, is one of Flatt and Scruggs's foundational gospel-quartet sides. Cut with the Foggy Mountain Boys lineup of Curly Seckler on mandolin, Paul Warren and Chubby Wise on fiddles, and Jake Tullock on bass, the recording paired Newton Thomas's stately hymn with the duo's familiar close harmony. The session sits in a brief Mercury run of sacred sides taped before the duo's move to Columbia later that year, and the song became an enduring sacred number for bluegrass quartets — an arrangement subsequent bands returned to for decades.
Tracklist
- 1 Till the End of the World Rolls Round alt version 2:33
- 2 Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky alt version