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Southern Flavor

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Released
  
1988

Label
  
MCA Records

Release date
  
1988

Genre
  
Bluegrass

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Artists
  
Bill Monroe, Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album

Bluegrass albums
  
True Life Blues: The Songs of, J D Crowe & The New South, Hot Dawg, The Bluegrass Album - V, Nothin' Like the Summer

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Southern Flavor is the eighteenth studio album by Bill Monroe, released through MCA Records in 1988. In 1989, the album won Monroe the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Recording (Vocal or Instrumental), an award currently known as Best Bluegrass Album.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Stone Coal" (Monroe)
  2. "Life's Highway" (Bobby Smith)
  3. "What a Wonderful Life" (Raymond Huffmaster)
  4. "Texas Lone Star" (Monroe)
  5. "Give Me Wings" (Gerald Evans)
  6. "Sugar Loaf Mountain" (Monroe)
  7. "White Rose" (Carl Butler)
  8. "Days Gone By" (Monroe)
  9. "Southern Flavor" (Monroe)
  10. "Take Courage Un' Tomorrow" (Traditional, arr. Monroe)

Personnel

  • Bill Monroe – mandolin, tenor vocals, lead vocal on "White Rose"
  • Tom Ewing - acoustic guitar, lead vocals
  • Blake Williams - banjo, baritone vocals
  • Clarence "Tater" Tate - acoustic bass, bass vocals
  • Bobby Hicks - fiddle
  • Buddy Spicher - fiddle
  • Mike Feagan - fiddle
  • Emory Gordy, Jr. - acoustic bass on "What A Wonderful Life", "Give Me Wings" and "Take Courage Un' Tomorrow"

    • Art Direction: Simon Levy

    Design: Katherine DeVault Design

    Photography: Jim DeVault

    References

    Southern Flavor Wikipedia
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