Yesterday & Today Volume 3

Yesterday & Today Volume 3
Yesterday & Today Volume 3
Compilation album by The Country Gentlemen
Released	1974
Recorded	1961–1971
Genre	Progressive bluegrass
Length	39:13
Label	Rebel
Producer	Charles R. Freeland
The Country Gentlemen compilation chronology

Yesterday & Today Volume 3 is a compilation album by American progressive bluegrass band the Country Gentlemen. Released in 1974 by Rebel Records, it features twelve recordings from between 1961 and 1971 that had not previously been released in the US, including six live tracks (two from Live in Japan. The album is the third in a trilogy of compilations under the same name, preceded by Yesterday & Today Volume 1 Yesterday & Today Volume 2 in 1973.

Track listing

*Yesterday & Today Volume 3* track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording date	Length
1.	"Train 45" (live)	Traditional, arr. Charlie Waller, Bill Emerson, Bill Yates and Doyle Lawson	January 18, 1971	2:32
2.	"White Rose"	John Duffey	November 17, 1962	3:36
3.	"Pretty Polly"	Larry Sparks	July 18, 1963	4:42
4.	"Silence or Tears"	Gray	November 6, 1961	2:40
5.	"Make Me a Pallet on the Floor"	Traditional	April 14, 1963	3:10
6.	"Hank Snow Medley" (live)	Hank Snow, arr. Waller	January 18, 1971	3:36
7.	"Galveston Flood"	Tom Rush Duffey	September 27, 1963	2:59
8.	"M.T.A."	Jacqueline Steiner Bess Lomax Hawes	August 21, 1963	3:56
9.	"These Men of God"	Duffey	November 17, 1962	2:36
10.	"Sunrise"	Sparks	August 21, 1963	3:18
11.	"They Call the Wind Maria"	Alan Jay Lerner Frederick Loewe	March 1, 1970	2:55
12.	"Heaven"	Boyd McSpadden	September 3, 1967	3:13
Total length:				39:13

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

↑ "Yesterday & Today, Vol. 3 — 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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