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