“Circle II” features largely acoustic, bluegrass music instrumentation with a line-up of contemporary country music artists that includes Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris and Ricky Skaggs. Other artists represent the rock, folk and pop genres, including Levon Helm from The Band, and Bruce Hornsby. Tracks were all recorded in one take, with no overdubs, making the outstanding musicianship particularly noteworthy on John Prine’s ‘Grandpa Was A Carpenter’; John Hiatt’s ‘One Step Over The Line’, with lead vocals by Hiatt and Rosanne Cash (Johnny’s daughter); and the moving wartime ballad ‘Mary Danced With Soldiers’, sung by Emmylou Harris. The Grammy award winning “Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two” was certified gold.
1 Life’s Railway To Heaven 2 Grandpa Was A Carpenter 3 When I Get My Rewards 4 Don’t You Hear Jerusalem Moan 5 Little Mountain Church House 6 And So It Goes 7 When It’s Gone 8 Mary Danced With Soldiers 9 Riding Alone 10 I’m Sitting On Top Of The World 11 Lovin’ On The Side 12 Lost River 13 Bayou Jubilee 14 Blues Berry Hill 15 Turn Of The Century 16 One Step Over The Line 17 You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere 18 The Valley Road 19 Will The Circle Be Unbroken 20 Amazing Grace