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Catalog number
UAS 9801
Format
Multiple 12" LP
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best seller
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Triple LP album. It features a who's-who of bluegrass, folk, and blues luminaries as primary and guest artists, including Mother Maybelle Carter, Roy Acuff, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Merle Travis, Pete "Oswald" Kirby, Norman Blake, Jimmy Martin, and others. It also introduced fiddler Vassar Clements to a wider audience.
Certified gold (500,000 sales) by the RIAA in May 1973 and platinum (1 million sales) in 1997.
Related releases
Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Volume Two   1989 Follow-up
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume III   2002 Follow-up

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Tracks

Title Performer Written by Info
i J. A. Roff, William Kindt Originally by (unknown), Hugh Cross
Merle Travis Originally by Merle Travis
i Vassar Clements Covered by (12 artists)
A.P. Carter, Ada Habershon, Charles H. Gabriel Originally by William McEwan, Carter Family
Hank Williams Originally by Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
Leon Payne Originally by Leon Payne
A.P. Carter, J. William Van Namee, Joseph Webster Originally by (unknown), Carter Family
[Traditional] Originally by Norfolk Jubilee Quartet
Hank Williams Originally by Hank Williams and His Drifting Cowboys
Bobby Gregory, Harry C. McAuliffe Originally by Hank, "The Singing Ranger"
Fred Rose Originally by Bob Atcher & Bonnie Blue Eyes
i   Joni Mitchell Originally by Judy Collins REL, Joni Mitchell REC
Jimmie Driftwood Originally by Jimmie Driftwood
Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle Originally by Carter Family
Roy Acuff Originally by Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys
  Hank Williams Originally by Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys REC, Clyde Grubb and His Tennessee Valley Boys - Vocal refrain by Leonard Dabney and Clarence Harrell REL
[Traditional] Originally by Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters (The Hill Billies [US])
i   Ervin Rouse Originally by Russel Wise and Mr. White, Walter Hurdt and His Singing Cowboys REL, Roy Hall and His Blue Ridge Entertainers REC
A.P. Carter, Guy Massey Originally by Vernon Dalhart, Carter Family
i L. Wolfe Gilbert Originally by The Peerless Quartet
i Earl Scruggs Originally by Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys
i Earl Scruggs Originally by Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys
Jimmy Martin [US1], Paul Williams [US4] Originally by Jimmy Martin
i Earl Scruggs Originally by Flatt and Scruggs
i [Traditional] Originally by (unknown)
A.P. Carter Originally by The Carter Family
i Leslie Keith Originally by Curley Fox
Dorsey Dixon Originally by Dixon Brothers
i Fred Rose Originally by Jimmie Davis
Edria Humphrey, Jimmy Martin [US1] Originally by Jimmy Martin
Jimmie Skinner Originally by Jimmie Skinner
i Merle Travis Originally by Merle Travis
[Traditional] Originally by Uncle Dave Macon - Guitar by Sam McGee