Yesterday & Today Volume 1

Yesterday & Today Volume 1
Yesterday & Today Volume 1
Compilation album by The Country Gentlemen
Released	1973
Recorded	1963–1971
Genre	Progressive bluegrass
Length	35:40
Label	Rebel
Producer	Charles R. Freeland
The Country Gentlemen compilation chronology

Yesterday & Today Volume 1 is a compilation album by American progressive bluegrass band the Country Gentlemen. Released in 1973 by Rebel Records, it features twelve recordings from between 1963 and 1971 that had not previously been released, including four live tracks. The album is the first in a trilogy of compilations under the same name, followed by Yesterday & Today Volume 2 later in 1973 and Yesterday & Today Volume 3 in 1974.

Track listing

*Yesterday & Today Volume 1* track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording date	Length
1.	"Are You Waiting Just for Me" (live)	Ernest Tubb	September 3, 1967	2:47
2.	"The Fields Have Turned Brown"	Carter Stanley	December 5, 1971	3:02
3.	"Tom Dooley"	Alan Lomax Frank Warner	August 17, 1963	3:02
4.	"Less of Me"	Glen Campbell	December 4, 1970	2:00
5.	"Long Black Veil" (live)	Danny Dill Marijohn Wilkin	September 3, 1967	3:58
6.	"When They Ring Those Golden Bells"	Daniel de Marbelle	March 16, 1968	2:59
7.	"I Never Will Marry"	Traditional	August 18, 1963	3:15
8.	"Electricity"	Jimmy Murphy	June 5, 1964	2:19
9.	"Under the Double Eagle" (live)	Charlie Waller	September 3, 1967	3:25
10.	"Blue Yodel #4"	Jimmie Rodgers	June 5, 1964	2:53
11.	"Get in Line Brother" (live)	Lester Flatt	September 3, 1967	2:48
12.	"Mrs. Robinson"	Paul Simon	December 19, 1969	3:12
Total length:				35:40

Charlie Waller — guitar, lead vocals, tenor vocals (track 4)
John Duffey — mandolin (tracks 1, 3, 5 and 7–11), tenor vocals (tracks 1, 3, 7, 8 and 11), lead vocals (tracks 1, 5 and 10)
Doyle Lawson — mandolin and tenor vocals (track 2)
Jimmy Gaudreau — mandolin (tracks 4 and 12), baritone vocals (track 4)
Bill Emerson — banjo (tracks 1 and 4), baritone vocals (track 1), lead vocals (track 4)
Eddie Adcock — banjo (all except tracks 1 and 4), baritone vocals (tracks 3, 5, 7, 8 and 11)
Ed Ferris — bass (tracks 1, 5, 9 and 11), bass vocals (track 11)
Bill Yates — bass (tracks 2 and 4)
Tom Gray — bass (tracks 3, 7, 8 and 10)
Mike Auldridge — dobro (tracks 2 and 4)
Bobbi Woods — tambourine (track 4)
Charles R. Freeland — production
Gary Sanford — engineering (tracks 1, 5, 9 and 11)
Roy Homer — engineering (tracks 2, 4 and 12)
John Rogers — engineering (tracks 3 and 7)
Bob Lloyd — engineering (track 6)
Pete Kuykendall — engineering (tracks 8 and 10)
Ronnie Bucke — photography

↑ "Yesterday & Today, Vol. 1 — The Country Gentlemen". Bluegrass Discography. Retrieved September 18, 2026.

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Charlie Waller John Duffey Eddie Adcock Tom Gray Bill Emerson Doyle Lawson
Studio albums	Country Songs, Old and New (1960) Folk Songs & Bluegrass (1961) Bluegrass at Carnegie Hall (1962) Hootenanny (1963) Folk Session Inside (1963) Traveler and Other Favorites (1968) Play It Like It Is (1969) New Look, New Sound (1970) One Wide River to Cross (1971) Sound Off (1971) The Award Winning Country Gentlemen (1972) Remembrances & Forecasts (1974) Joe's Last Train (1976) Calling My Children Home (1978) Sit Down, Young Stranger (1980) River Bottom (1981) Good as Gold! (1983) Return Engagement (1988) Classic Country Gents Reunion (1989) Nashville Jail (1990) Let the Light Shine Down (1991) New Horizon (1992) Souvenirs (1995) Crying in the Chapel (2001) Songs of the American Spirit (2004)
Live albums	On the Road (1963) Live In Japan (1970) Going Back to the Blue Ridge Mountains (1973)
Compilation albums	The Best of the Early Country Gentlemen (1971) Yesterday & Today Volume 1 (1973) Yesterday & Today Volume 2 (1973) Yesterday & Today Volume 3 (1974) 25 Years (1980) The Country Gentlemen Featuring Ricky Skaggs on Fiddle (1987) Sugar Hill Collection (1995) Early Rebel Recordings: 1962–1971 (1998) High Lonesome (1998) Complete Vanguard Recordings (2002) 45 Years of Memories (2002)
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