Cry Cry Darling 2. Roane County Prison 3. Goodbye, Old Pal 4. Out in the Cold World 5. a Good Woman's Love 6. in Despair 7. Come Back to Me in Your Dreams 8. a Lonesome Road (To Travel) 9. Sally-Jo 10. Brand New Shoes 11. Molly and Ten Brooks 12. I'm Sitting on Top of the World - Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys
This album goes back to the 1950s and has classic Monroe cuts such as Roane County Prison, Goodbye Old Pal, etc with Don Stover on banjo, Gordon Terry on fiddle, etc. Wonderful stuff!
Three and a half stars, to be honest. Big Mon's first actual LP as his previous albums were all collections of tracks cut at various sessions where Decca was getting him to cut some singles. Though recorded as an album in 1957 this was released in 1958 at a time when the album was finally starting to creep up in sales in the country and bluegrass fields. By the way, the songwriter here called Joe Ahr is actually Bill Monroe under a pseudonym. Monroe is on mandolin as per usual but the Bluegrass Boys were augmented by others such as a young Doug Kershaw on guitar (!) but the fiddlers were Monroe stalwarts Gordon Terry and Kenny Baker and I know Don Stover and Joe Stuart were on hand to pick and sing and were in his touring Bluegrass Boys at the time. I do not think this is the best Monroe album but it was the first album he did recorded as such.
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