V/A - The Legend Lives On: A Tribute To Bill Monroe

(Audium AUD8170) 2003

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This 2xCD set features the same live recordings as the companion The Legend Lives On: A Tribute To Bill Monroe 2xDVD set, which was recorded at the Ryman Auditorium on 17th April 1997 about seven months after Bill Monroe had died.

Ralph and the Clinch Mountain Boys get to perform two of Bill's classics, Can't You Hear Me Calling and Letter From My Darling (shown here as I Got A Letter).

Ralph had previously helped Bill Monroe record a version of Can't You Hear Me Calling on Bill's Bill Monroe And Stars Of The Bluegrass Hall Of Fame album in 1985, and Bill appeared on Ralph's 1992 version of Letter From My Darling on Ralph's Saturday Night (and Saturday Night / Sunday Morning).

Ralph is also featured at the end of the show in the finale with one of those 'all bands on stage' affairs singing I'll Fly Away and Will The Circle Be Unbroken.

The running order is the same as per the DVD set, with the artists performances and finale split so that one song is on 'Disc 1' and the other on 'Disc 2'.

Ralph's rendition of Can't You Hear Me Calling and Letter From My Darling from the DVD can also be found on youtube here and here.

A proportion of the profits on the CD/DVD's went to the Bill Monroe Foundation which oversaw the $3 million restoration of Bill's old home in Rosine, Kentucky^[1]... and I think also paid for his grave monument.

• Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
• Jack Cooke: bass
• James Price: fiddle
• John Rigsby: mandolin
• James Alan Shelton: lead guitar
• Steve Sparkman: banjo
• Ralph II Stanley: guitar, vocals

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[1] https://bluegrasstoday.com/bill-monroe-homeplace-to-stay-put-in-ohio-county/