Grateful Dead Family Discography: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz

Lonesome Moonlight Waltz

Composer: Bill Monroe

Lonesome Moonlight Waltz was performed by the Great American Music Band when Jerry Garcia was a member of the group. It circulates on Great Amercian Music Band tapes as Moonlight Waltz but the tune played is Bill Monroe's Lonesome Moonlight Waltz.

Bill Monroe said that he wrote this piece many years before performing it live or recording it.

Recordings

no info Single (Lonesome Moonlight Waltz / My Old Kentucky And You), Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys, 1972
Dreams, High Country, 1972
Plays Bill Monroe, Kenny Baker, 1977
Back to Back, Tiny Moore, 1979
Classic Bluegrass Instrumentals, Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys, 1987
no info Trail to Mexico, Skip Gorman, 1987
no info Fiddle Favorites, Charlie Cline & the Warrior River Boys, 1988
no info Straight From The Heart, Tim Smith, 1990
Live Duet Recordings: 1963-1980, Off The Record, Vol. 2, Bill Monroe & Doc Watson, 1993
no info As the Crow Flies, David Crow, 1994
The Music Of Bill Monroe, Bill Monroe, 1994
Bluegrass 1970-1979, Bill Monroe, 1995
DGQ 20, David Grisman Quintet, 1996
The Songs of Bill Monroe, The Bluegrass Album Band, 1996
Bluegrass Album Band, Vol. 6: Bluegrass Instrumentals, Bluegrass Album Band, 1996
no info Not Much Work For Saturday, Henderson & Kaufman, 1996
Bluegrass Mandolin and Other Trouble, Red Henry, 2000
The Rough Guide to Bluegrass, Various Artists (Bluegrass Album Band), 2001
no info Spider Bit the Baby, Kenny Baker, 2002
no info Country Mountain Bluegrass, Craig Duncan and the Smoky Mountain Band, 2002
Lonesome Moonlight: Songs of Bill Monroe, The Bluegrass Album Band, 2002
no info Mandolin Rose, Lorraine Jordan, 2002
Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys, Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys, 2003
Rough Guide: American Roots Box, Various Artists (Bluegrass Album Band), 2003
no info Big Time, Rob Ickes with Blue Highway, 2004
Back to Back (Extended ed.), Tiny Moore, 2005
no info Made & Played, Wayne Henderson, 2005
no info Carolina Scrapbook Volume Two, Kruger Brothers, 2005
no info Fried Rainbow Trout, Fried Rainbow Trout, 2005
no info Blasting Caps, Quickdraw String Band, 2005
no info Legacy, Scott Gates, 2005
Acoustic Cheer, Various Artists (David Grisman), 2005?
no info Traditional Fiddle, Dewey Brown, 2006
no info Old Lonesome Sounds, The Ball Sisters Band, 2007
Live At The Great American Music Hall, 03/05/79, David Grisman Quintet, 2008
no info Straight from the Heart, Tim Smith, 2008
no info Bluegrass & Beyond Late Night Radio, 2008
no info Fiddlin' Around, John Justus with Tom Dalton, 2008
Another Town, 4 Wheel Drive, 2008
no info Acosta & Clark: Guitar Instrumentals, Andrew Acosta & Rosser Clark, 2011
Happy Birthday Bill Monroe: Dawg Plays Big Mon, David Grisman and various artists, 2011
Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute, Various Artists (Bluegrass Album Band), 2011
Live In Watsonville, Doc & Dawg, 2014
Doc & Dawg: Live at Acoustic Stage, Doc Watson & David Grisman, 2018