Lyr Req: 'Life's evening sun is sinking low...'

Subject: RE: Song starts'Life's evening sun is sinking low
From: mkaye
Date: 24 May 99 - 05:53 PM

and for variety try the version by Bryan Bowers on autoharp - i think it's on his first LP

Subject: RE: Song starts'Life's evening sun is sinking low
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 24 May 99 - 01:49 AM

Amen to the comments about Bill Monroe. I had the great honor to hear Bill and his band at Riverfront Plaza in Louisville in 1974. His performances still ring with the soul and energy he put into them. His innovations in the field of folk, bluegrass, country and popular music are not really appreciated by the millions of today's fans, though.He has been a major influence on everyone from Elvis Presley to Dwight Yoakam to the Grateful Dead.The LP Bean Blossom shows the power of what he and The Bluegrass Boys could do live.

LEJ

Subject: RE: Song starts'Life's evening sun is sinking low
From: Dale Rose
Date: 23 May 99 - 11:47 PM

One objection. The link to A Beautiful Life attributes the song to Bill Monroe. Absolutely, positively incorrect! It was written by William M. Golden, copyright 1918. I have tried to do a bit of research into Mr. Golden's background, but turned up just about zero. He also wrote Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies (Canaan's Land).

My own personal favorite version is that of the Country Gentlemen.

Subject: RE: Song starts'Life's evening sun is sinking low
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 23 May 99 - 11:45 PM

Just got a new Doyle Lawson CD with this on it. Sheeoot! I've got more gospel albums than any ten preachers! How come I'm still an agnostic? (Please DON'T answer that, it rhetorical)

Subject: RE: Song starts'Life's evening sun is sinking low
From: Night Owl
Date: 23 May 99 - 11:39 PM

I loooove this song. Its an "event" to participate in a group singing it!!

Subject: RE: Song starts'Life's evening sun is sinking low
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 May 99 - 11:31 PM

Well, just great........I get back here with info and not only is it already posted, but Rick has taken my line re: Bill Monroe. But let me add this.........

Not only should you here Bill Monroe do this, but anyone who has any interest in American folk music should be given a mandatory listening sampler of 20 or 30 Bill Monroe songs. He added so much...from different instrument groupings and sounds, different styles on each instrument, different harmonies........No way you can talk American music without a background course in Bill Monroe.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Song starts'Life's evening sun is sinking low
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 23 May 99 - 10:55 PM

Please listen to Bill Monroe sing this. It's so good it can make me cry!

Subject: RE: Song starts'Life's evening sun is sinking low
From:
Date: 23 May 99 - 10:07 PM

A BEAUTIFUL LIFE is the correct title.

CLICK HERE for - A BEAUTIFUL LIFE

Subject: RE: Song starts'Life's evening sun is sinking low
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 May 99 - 08:55 PM

The first song that came into my mind was Angel Band (click here). Not the same, but there is a similarity. Can you remember any more of the song?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Song starts'Life's evening sun is sinking low
From:
Date: 23 May 99 - 08:46 PM

I'm trying to find an old fieldhands'song that starts "Life's evening sun is sinking low". It has great sentimental value for my girlfriend as her father taught it to her when she was a child. She has never heard it recorded and would like to find if anyone has recorded it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This request was triggered when she read Johnny Cash mention it as a song sung in the cotton fields when he was a boy.