Monroe Live WSM 1947 Clyde Franklin Collection

This live recording is very much like a time capsule that hasn’t been opened since it was sealed in 1947. It is a powerful documentation of the very early stages of a new form of music that within a decade would be commonly referred to as Bluegrass. Early Bluegrass performed by Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys back in 1947 . Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys, Live on WSM 1947 Muleskinner Blues Bill Monroe (mandolin) Lester Flatt (guitar), Earl Scruggs (banjo), Chubby Wise (fiddle), Cedric Rainwater (bass), Song list Drifting Away Careless Love Peacock Rag Wicked Path of Sin Leaf of Love – The Kentucky Twins Drifting Away Toy Heart Cumberland Gap If I Should Wander Back Tonight The Third Party I'll Gladly Take You Back – The Kentucky Twins Honey Suckle Rose Molly and Tenbrook Cotton Eyed Joe Have I Told You Lately Mighty Dark to Travel Dear Old Dixie Listen to the Mocking Bird Blue Yodel #4 Where Could I Go True Life Blues Why Did You Wander Along Around Daybreak Bring Back To Me My Wandering Boy Love Gone Cold I’ll Just Live And Learn At the end of his life my dear friend Clyde Franklin asked me to do something with his archives of live bluegrass recordings, pictures, interviews etc. He expressed deep concern over the fate of his stuff after his days. With the help of my good friends Jerry Stuart, Tracey Steffey and Sharlene Franklin we started going through his house. Long story short ...I decided to start collection in Clyde’s memory by donating his precious material to the Folk Life Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. Thanks to Steve Weiss for taking care and digitizing the original acetate discs that were Clyde Franklin was a Western NC bluegrass institution, business owner, philosopher, limerick writer, wordsmith, banjoist, teacher, with encyclopedic knowledge about string gauges, pearl inlays, tone rings, birds of prey, plant photography, etymology, poetry, Huddle House menus, weightlifting, C.S Lewis etc and one of the kindest, hospitable and smartest people I have ever met in my life. A New Englander transplanted to Asheville and its fertile OT and bluegrass soil, Clyde’s photographic memory brings to life events from his past travels in pursuit of the bluegrass from coast to coast including scenes of encounters with teenagers Clarence & Roland White in Burbank, following Flatt & Scruggs around and taping their shows, owning and operating The Bluegrass Center on Hendersonville Rd in Asheville. I first met Clyde Franklin, who was born in 1938, at his music store - The Bluegrass Center – in Asheville in 1986. I had just arrived here from Sweden in my own search of the well of the bluegrass. It turned in to an extended visit and for the next two years a bedroom in the basement of the Bluegrass Center was my home base on this side of the Atlantic. Produced with CyberLink PowerDirector 13