Yesterday & Today Volume 2

Yesterday & Today Volume 2
Yesterday & Today Volume 2
Compilation album by The Country Gentlemen
Released	1973
Recorded	1962–1971
Genre	Progressive bluegrass
Length	36:06
Label	Rebel
Producer	Charles R. Freeland
The Country Gentlemen compilation chronology

Yesterday & Today Volume 2 is a compilation album by American progressive bluegrass band the Country Gentlemen. Released in 1973 by Rebel Records, it features twelve recordings from between 1962 and 1971 that had not previously been released, including two live tracks. The album is the second in a trilogy of compilations under the same name, preceded by Yesterday & Today Volume 1 earlier in 1973 and followed by Yesterday & Today Volume 3 in 1974.

Track listing

*Yesterday & Today Volume 2* track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording date	Length
1.	"Columbus Stockade Blues"	John Duffey Charlie Waller	August 21, 1963	2:16
2.	"Girl Behind the Bar"	Carter Stanley	November 11, 1971	3:01
3.	"Man of Constant Sorrow"	Lash LaRue	August 17, 1963	3:47
4.	"Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party"	Waller	September 27, 1963	2:48
5.	"Cripple Creek" (live)	Traditional	September 3, 1967	3:14
6.	"Philadelphia Lawyer"	Woody Guthrie	November 17, 1962	2:59
7.	"This Land Is Your Land"	Guthrie	August 21, 1963	2:34
8.	"Lord I'm Coming Home"	Duffey Waller	January 17, 1968	3:40
9.	"Windy and Warm" (live)	John D. Loudermilk	July 3, 1966	2:46
10.	"Doin' My Time"	Jimmie Skinner	December 19, 1969	3:08
11.	"East Virginia Blues"	Duffey	April 14, 1963	2:58
12.	"Over the Hills to the Poor House"	Ronnie Bucke	June 11, 1970	2:55
Total length:				36:06

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

↑ "Yesterday & Today, Vol. 2 — The Country Gentlemen". Bluegrass Discography. Retrieved September 18, 2026.

v t e The Country Gentlemen
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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