Jimmie Fadden's harp playing is well represented in the collection, and worth a listen by anyone interested in learning background harp playing.

If anyone has or knows where to find the song keys for this music, I'd be forever in their debt.

Second, here, compliments of "Staggerin' Jim" Greenwald, is the song key chart he worked up for Volume I of the "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" This is from the re-issued, remastered CD set, so there's some additional songs at the end of disc 2. Jim notes that these are the song keys, that all should be played in 2nd position except Nashville Blues, which is in 3rd position. Also, there isn't harp on every tune...but hell, ya can put it there if ya want, right? So a big thank you to Staggerin' Jim, and here's his list:

Disc 1,

Grand Ole Opry Song F
Keep on the Sunny Side B flat
Nashville Blues D minor (use 3rd position)
You Are My Flower G
The Precious Jewel G
Dark as a Dungeon A
Tennessee Stud D
Black Mountain Rag D/A
Wreck on the Highway A
End of the World A
I Saw the Light A
Sunny Side of the Mountain A
Nine Pound Hammer G
Losin' You F
Honky Tonkin' F
You Don't Know My Mind A
My Walkin' Shoes C

Disc 2

Lonesome Fiddle Blues D
Cannonball Rag G
Avalanche G
Flint Hill Special G
Togary Mountain A flat
Earl's Breakdown G
Orange Blossom Special E
Wabash Cannonball A
Lost Highway F
Way Downtown D
Down Yonder G
Pins and Needles G
Honky Tonk Blues A flat
Sailin' on to Hawaii D
I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes B flat
I Am a Pilgrim G
Wildwood Flower F
Soldier's Joy C
Will the Circle Be Unbroken A
Both Sides Now G
Foggy Mountain Breakdown G
Warming Up at the Grand Ole Opry F
Remember Me D

Third, here's my attempt at discerning the song keys for Volume III. It's not complete, as I'm still working on it. I don't claim any great competency in doing this, but its a start. If you think I might have got one wrong....help us all out by putting up a correction....OK, here goes.

Volume III, Disc 1;

Take Me in Your Lifeboat G
Milk Cow Blues G
I Find Jesus A
Hold Watcha Got F (ain't real sure about this one)
Mama's Opry B flat
Diamonds in the Rough C
Lonesome River D
Some Dark Holler E (another one I'm not sure of)
The Lowlands B (or maybe B minor)
Love Please Come Home B
Goodnight Irene E

That's as far as I've got. Remember, no guarantee as to their correctness....use them as a starting point. I figure I might have gotten a few right.

And again, a big thanks to Staggerin' Jim for his work on Volume I

Enjoy the music and PLAY!

KR