Virginia Stauffer
Musician · d. 2011
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Songwriter
Virginia Stauffer was a 1960s bluegrass songwriter whose catalog — published through Bill Monroe Publishing — supplied Bill Monroe with five recorded songs, among them “With Body and Soul,” the dark love-and-loss ballad Monroe cut in April 1969. She traveled with the Blue Grass Boys on the road.
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- Worked as a BMI-affiliated bluegrass songwriter through the 1960s; her songs were published by Bill Monroe Publishing.
- Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys cut five of her songs, among them “With Body and Soul,” recorded April 29, 1969, in a session with James Monroe, Rual Yarbrough, Kenny Baker, Tommy Williams, and Joe Zinkan.
- “With Body and Soul” first appeared as the B-side of Monroe’s 1967 “Fireball Mail” single and resurfaced as the title cut of his 1977 album Bill Monroe Sings Bluegrass, Body and Soul.
- Traveled regularly with the Blue Grass Boys’ tour bus.
- Died in 2011.