Clinch Mountain Echo

Top 30 Favourites

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I've now added an 'Album Rating' feature to the individual Discography listings... When visiting a page if you click on the 'stars' shown on the right hand side, the website will record your choice and recalculate the average rating and rating distribution for that album.

In order to add your ratings, they have to be stored on your computer as 'cookies' so that if you later change your mind, you can give the album a different rating... and also to help prevent people skewing the results by clicking on a rating multiple times.

The only data being sent from your computer is your 'Rating' and the 'Album' reference. No personal data is stored either in the cookies or on the website, which only holds the total votes for each of the star rating categories...

NB: I've now re-written the code that controls the scoring and handling of the cookies... It seems to be working... but if you notice any problems please get in touch via the Contact page. The new code will hopefully convert any of the old cookie ratings, which didn't get overwritten in the old system... Apologies for the inconvenience!

Thanks
Ivor (7th Nov 2017)

PS: I've re-jigged the charts so that only those with most vote are shown, i.e. albums with only one rating of 5 stars no longer skew the results...

Votes to date:

Total votes to date: 2441

Many thanks to everybody who's taken time to vote! It's much appreciated!


Stanley Brothers - Top 30 Albums

Below is a table of the top 30 Stanley Brother albums, which have the highest overall average score... and sorted by the number of votes cast.
In order to appear in the results each album must have at least a third of the number of votes as the one with the most votes cast.

No.Title:Label / Cat. No:Year:Avg. ScoreTotal Votes:
1The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1953 - 1958 & 1959(Bear BCD-15681)19935.0014
2The Definitive Collection (1947 - 1966)(Time Life B00007883-02)20075.0011
3The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1949-52(Bear BCD-15564)19914.9315
4The Stanley Brothers And The Clinch Mountain Boys(King KLP-615)19594.9329
5The King Years, 1961-1965(King KG-0950-2)20034.9213
6The Early Starday/King Years, 1958-1961(King/Starday KBSCD-7000)19934.9213
7Mountain Song Favorites(Starday SLP-106)19594.9212
8On Radio(Rebel REB-CD-1115)19914.9111
9Riding That New River Train(Stanleytone ST-5002)20014.8211
10Folk Festival(Stanleytone ST-5003)20014.8211
11Earliest Recordings: The Complete Rich-R-Tone 78s(Rounder 11661-1110-2)20044.6916
12The Stanley Brothers On WCYB Bristol(Rebel REB-855)19884.6712
13Country Pickin And Singin'(Mercury MG-20349)19584.6411
14Hymns Of The Cross(King KLP-918)19644.6010
15Shadows Of The Past(Copper Creek CCLP 0101)19814.5016
16Hymns And Sacred Songs(King KLP-645)19594.5010
17The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers(Columbia CK-53798)19964.4511
18The Complete Mercury Recordings(Mercury MERC-B0000534-02)20034.3219
19Stanley Series Vol. 3 No. 4(Copper Creek CCCD-5512)19924.2512
20Stanley Series Vol. 2 No. 1(Copper Creek CCSS-V2N1)19844.0616
21Stanley Series Vol. 1 No. 1(Copper Creek CCSS-V1N1)19823.9212
22An Evening Long Ago(Columbia/DMZ CK-86747)20043.9111
23Old-Time Songs(Stanleytone STCD-5001)20013.8513
24Stanley Series Vol. 4 No. 1(Copper Creek CCCD-5513)19963.8211
25Earliest Recordings(Revenant REV-203)19973.8010
26Live At New River Ranch(No label No #)200?3.7311
27Stanley Brothers Of Virginia, Vol. 2: Long Journey Home(County CO-739)19733.7311
28Stanley Series Vol. 3 No. 1(Copper Creek CCSS-V3N1)19873.7010
29Stanley Series Vol. 4 No. 2(Copper Creek CCCD-5514)19963.7010
30Valley View Park 1957(Stanley Family Records SFR-002)20173.5714

 


Ralph Stanley - Top Albums

Below is a table of the top Ralph Stanley albums, which have the highest overall average score... and sorted by the number of votes cast.
In order to appear in the results each album must have at least a third of the number of votes as the one with the most votes cast.

No.Title:Label / Cat. No:Year:Avg. ScoreTotal Votes:
1Cry From The Cross(Rebel SLP 1499)19715.0027
2Classic Stanley(Freeland Recording Co. FRC-CD-9002)19955.0013
3Live In Japan(Seven Seas SR 690)19714.9224
4Poor Rambler: His Complete King and Gusto Recordings(King K3CD-0951)20034.9111
5The Stanley Sound Around The World(King Bluegrass KB 522)19734.9111
6Live At The Smithsonian Institution(Atteiriam API-CD 1662)19924.9111
7A Man And His Music(Rebel SLP 1530)19734.899
81971 - 1973(Rebel REB-CD-4001-1/2/3/4)19954.8513
9Something Old, Something New(Rebel SLP 1503)19714.8211
10Play Requests(Rebel SLP 1514)19724.8211
11Clinch Mountain Gospel(Rebel SLP 1571)19774.6715
12Featuring Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs(Jalyn JLP-129)1971/24.6411
13Sing Michigan Bluegrass(Jessup MB 108)19714.6411
14Gospel Echoes Of The Stanley Brothers(Jessup MB 129)19714.6411
15Brand New Country Songs(King 1028)1967/84.4015
16John Henry(Birdree PMC 6004)19714.2711
17Over The Sunset Hill(King 1032)19684.1010
18Live at Watermelon Park: Berryville, Virginia 1969(Stanleytone STR-1105)20054.0010
19I Want To Preach The Gospel(Rebel SLP 1522)19733.789