Musicians
- Charlie Waller — Lead Vocals, Guitar
- John Duffey — Tenor Vocals, Mandolin
- Eddie Adcock — Banjo
- Tom Gray — Bass
“Bluebirds Are Singing for Me” carries a Mac Wiseman writing credit on every release that names a writer at all, from the first one onward — though the song moves like something older, and some discographies treat it as traditional. That first release came from the Country Gentlemen, who cut it in September 1963 for Folk Session Inside, their Mercury album from the classic Duffey–Waller–Adcock–Gray lineup.
The recording here is Lester Flatt and Mac Wiseman’s, from Lester ’n’ Mac (RCA, 1971) — the reunion of two voices with history: Wiseman had been an original Foggy Mountain Boy in 1948, and the album paired him with Flatt two years after the Flatt & Scruggs split. The March 1971 Nashville sessions drew on Flatt’s Nashville Grass and friends — Roland White on mandolin, Josh Graves on dobro, Paul Warren and Howdy Forrester on fiddles.
Wiseman never let the song go: he cut it again in 1979 with the Osborne Brothers, and the title itself drifts between releases — “Bluebirds Are Singing for Me,” “The Bluebirds Singing for Me” — the way well-traveled songs’ titles do.
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