True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe is a compilation album of bluegrass music released through Sugar Hill Records on October 15, 1996. It was a tribute to Bill Monroe. In 1997, the album won Todd Phillips the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, as the producer.
Track listing "Molly and Tenbrooks" – 3:13 "True Life Blues" – 2:45 "I'm on My Way to the Old Home" – 2:08 "Highway of Sorrow" – 2:53 "Old Ebenezer Scrooge" – 2:46 "Memories of You" – 3:06 "Rawhide" – 3:07 "Can't You Hear Me Callin'" – 4:07 "Letter from My Darling" – 3:32 "Sitting Alone in the Moonlight" – 3:16 "Big Mon" – 3:01 "Get Down on Your Knees and Pray" – 3:12 "Used to Be" – 2:03 "Scotland" – 3:08 "Travelin' This Lonesome Road" – 3:02 "Heavy Traffic Ahead Bill Monroe" – 2:25 "Little Cabin Home on the Hill" – 3:49
Personnel
Joseph Bartoldus – Engineer Sam Bush – Mandolin Vassar Clements – Fiddle Mike Compton – Mandolin Donivan Cowart – Engineer Gary Denton – Engineer Jerry Douglas – Dobro Stuart Duncan – Fiddle Pat Enright – Guitar, Vocals Lester Flatt – Composer Greg Garing – Mandolin, Vocals Rainer Gembalczk – Mastering Richard Greene – Fiddle David Grier – Guitar David Grisman – Mandolin John Hartford – Banjo, Fiddle, Composer, Vocals Bradley Hartman – Engineer Bobby Hicks – Fiddle Steve Horowitz – Engineer Kathy Kallick – Guitar, Vocals Laurie Lewis – Fiddle, Vocals Mike Marshall – Mandolin, Engineer Del McCoury – Guitar, Vocals
Ronnie McCoury – Mandolin, Vocals Sue Meyer – Design Bill Monroe – Composer, Performer Jim Nunally – Guitar, Engineer Scott Nygaard – Guitar Mollie O'Brien – Vocals Tim O'Brien – Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals Alan O'Bryant – Vocals Herb Pedersen – Banjo, Vocals Todd Phillips – Bass, Producer, Engineer, Mixing Barry Poss – Executive Producer Pete Pyle – Composer John Reischman – Mandolin Peter Rowan – Guitar, Vocals Tom Size – Engineer Mark Slagle – Engineer Craig Smith – Banjo J.B. Smith – Composer Chris Thile – Mandolin Elizabeth Tormes – Photography Tony Trischka – Banjo Doc Watson – Composer Roland White – Mandolin, Vocals
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