Harry Wright
Musician
Best known for
Songwriter
Harry Wright is the credited author of “Footprints in the Snow,” the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard that Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys cut for Columbia in 1945 with Lester Flatt singing lead and Earl Scruggs on banjo. Monroe’s version became one of his signature recordings and a fixture of the bluegrass canon.
Assisted by AI.
Spot something off? Help us fix it.
- Credited as the author of the bluegrass standard “Footprints in the Snow.”
- Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys cut the song for Columbia on February 13, 1945 — before Flatt and Scruggs had joined the band. The classic lineup with Lester Flatt on lead vocal and Earl Scruggs on banjo did not record together for Columbia until September 1946 — one of the first Monroe sides recorded with the classic bluegrass lineup.
- The song has since been recorded by Ricky Skaggs, Dolly Parton, Jim & Jesse, and a long line of country and bluegrass acts.
