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It’s Mighty Dark to Travel by Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys

First released: Jan 1949, Length: 2:53
matrix CCO 4875-1, master take, first released 1948

Creators (9)

Instruments

  1. Bill Monroe (27 Oct 1947) mandolin
  2. Chubby Wise (27 Oct 1947) fiddle
  3. Earl Scruggs (27 Oct 1947) banjo
  4. Howard Watts (27 Oct 1947) double bass
  5. Lester Flatt (27 Oct 1947) guitar

Vocals

  1. Bill Monroe (27 Oct 1947) tenor vocals
  2. Lester Flatt (27 Oct 1947) lead vocals

Producer

  1. Art Satherly

Locations

Recorded At

  1. WBBM Studio (27 Oct 1947)

Works (1)

Recording Of

  1. It's Mighty Dark to Travel (27 Oct 1947)

    Composer

    1. Bill Monroe

Releases containing this recording (13)

Official

Album

  1. The Original Bluegrass Sound 1965 Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys

Album - Compilation

  1. 16 All‐Time Greatest Hits Aug 1970 Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys
  2. Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection, Volume II 1990 Various Artists
  3. The Music of Bill Monroe from 1936 to 1994 1994 Bill Monroe
  4. 16 Gems 1996 Bill Monroe
  5. Blue Moon of Kentucky 1936-1949 2002 Bill Monroe
  6. America's Musical Landscape, Fourth Edition 2002 Various Artists
  7. All the Classic Releases 1937-1949 2003 Bill Monroe
  8. The Essential Earl Scruggs 02 Mar 2004 Earl Scruggs
  9. The Legend Lives On 21 Feb 2005 Bill Monroe
  10. The Father of Bluegrass: The Essential Recordings 2014 Bill Monroe

Single

  1. It’s Mighty Dark to Travel / When You Are Lonely Jan 1949 Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys

Promotion

Album - Compilation

  1. And the Beat Goes On 1996 Various Artists