Name: Lonesome Road Blues (live) by The Stanley Brothers
Duration: 2 min
Description: Recorded at Berkeley Little Theater in Berkeley, CA on September 21, 1962. With Curley Lambert & Vernon Derrick.

Recorded at the Ash Grove in Los Angeles, CA on May 14, 1967. With Doug Green, Roland White, Lamar Grier, Byron Berline & James Monroe. Here is a link to a Google Drive folder with 20 Bill Monroe live MP3s recorded at the Ash Grove in 1967 (including this one): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EGijcsGiHubTpJaK9Io7lvyS3HB3kiBL?usp=sharing

Crossing The Cumberlands (live) - 1967

Recorded in Bean Blossom, IN on June 19, 1969. Featuring Bill Monroe, James Monroe, Rual Yarbrough, Kenny Baker & Doug Green. Tune composed by Bill Monroe, who recorded it in the studio with James Monroe, Yarbrough, Baker and Bill Yates on November 25, 1969 but that version was lost. This version was issued on an album by Kipepeo Publishing in 2018. Here is a link to a Google Drive folder with 46 Bill Monroe live MP3s from various Kipepeo Publishing albums (including this one): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pktoTBMiJZtq8OnKmo-sEGwYzyVYNCGC?usp=sharing

Land Of Lincoln (live) - 1969

Recorded at New River Ranch in Rising Sun, MD on July 14, 1957. With Ernie Graves, Joe Stuart, Kenny Baker & Bessie Lee Mauldin. Bill Monroe and Mauldin wrote this song, but Monroe never recorded it in the studio. This song is also known as "Won’t You Meet Me There.” Here is a link to a Google Drive folder with 44 commercially unissued Monroe live recordings (including this one): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RiaDfF0XSKfwxv14-Q-vDE3AYx9Ddcyl?usp=sharing

The Hills Of Glory (live) - 1957

Recorded at Cantrell's Horse Farm in Fincastle, VA on September 5, 1965. From the presentation “The Story Of Blue Grass Music.” Possibly with Jimmy Martin, Larry Richardson, Gene Lowinger and/or James Monroe. Here is a link to a Google Drive folder with 55 MP3s from this presentation (including this one): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V9lvuw8xlBHokDx3kSChMIOSs0-qQHGX?usp=sharing

The Old Cross Road (live) - 1965

Recorded at Cantrell's Horse Farm in Fincastle, VA on September 4, 1966. From the presentation “The Story Of Blue Grass Music.” With Mac Wiseman, Don Reno, Benny Martin & James Monroe. Here is a link to a Google Drive folder with 56 MP3s from this presentation (including this one): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18KhrXO2N-nalC-7qqaRVGPxHUCOPAsDC?usp=sharing

Travelin' This Lonesome Road (live) - 1966

Recorded at Watermelon Park in Berryville, VA on September 3, 1967. From the presentation “The Story Of Blue Grass Music.” With Clyde Moody, Vic Jordan, Tater Tate & James Monroe. Here is a link to a Google Drive folder with 14 MP3s from this presentation (including this one): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1W2t4fLTzcepwqEk_K3gcrKBmc05DSn3L?usp=sharing

Honky Tonk Swing (live) - 1967

Recorded at Watermelon Park in Berryville, VA on July 6, 1969. From the presentation “The Story Of Blue Grass Music” With Mac Wiseman, Clyde Moody, Don Reno & John Palmer. Here is a link to a Google Drive folder with 46 MP3s from this presentation (including this one): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_Gvv_znu0oh8E1J5kLa_0RrqFHwphMHj?usp=sharing

Six More Miles (To The Graveyard) (live) - 1969

BMC 45-1002. Flip side is "You'll Always Be Untrue." Featuring Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, Red Spurlock & Les Bodine. "Love And Wealth" was composed by Ira & Charlie Louvin; the first issued version of the song was by Carl Story & The Rambling Mountaineers (Columbia 21137, 1953). Here is a link to a Google Drive folder with 12 Allen MP3s from various 1960s singles and albums issued on BMC, Starday, Power Pak & King Bluegrass (including both sides of this record): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sQIRLxOPkZLnliGgDtfrJ9BIxkIGUQgN?usp=sharing

The Red Heads - Love And Wealth - 1959

Wango Records CD 117, 2000. Recorded by Ray Davis in Baltimore, MD in May 1964 and featuring Carter Stanley, Ralph Stanley and George Shuffler. This is an alternate version of the track initially heard on “John's Country Quartet,” Wango Records LP-104, ca. 1964 (reissued as “The Stanley Brothers Of Virginia, Volume 2: Long Journey Home,” County Records CO-739, 1973 and “Long Journey Home,” Rebel Records CD-1110, 1990). Here is a link to a Google Drive folder with 161 MP3s of Stanley Brothers Wango Records recordings (recorded 1963-1964): drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BYXgAqmJFHI_aUyyB7WW2lENszbPEJnB?usp=sharing

Freight Trains Ride Again: Volume 1

The Stanley Brothers - Nine Pound Hammer - 1964

Recorded at Berkeley Little Theater in Berkeley, CA on September 21, 1962. With Curley Lambert & Vernon Derrick.

Berkeley Little Theater, September 21, 1962 (Disc 2)

Lonesome Road Blues (live)

Recorded at the Red Slipper Lounge in Lexington, KY in March 1969. Featuring Red Allen, Doyle Lawson, J.D. Crowe & Bobby Slone. Here is a link to a Google Drive folder with 82 commercially unissued live MP3s by J.D. Crowe & The Kentucky Mountain Boys at the Red Slipper Lounge ca. 1968-1969 (including this one): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1re88fLSMzFgStrM_WvQt45fs7Ea9RqOq?usp=sharing

Lonesome Road Blues (live)

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