Clinch Mountain Echo

CMB Birthdays this month:

04 Feb 1972 - Steve Sparkman. Harlan, Kentucky.

04 Feb 1906 - Art Wooten. Born 'Arthur James Wooten' in Alleghany, North Carolina.

11 Feb 1960 - Junior Blankenship. Born at the old Grundy Hospital, Grundy, Va.

25 Feb 1927 - Ralph Stanley. Born 'Ralph Edmund Stanley' in Big Spraddle Creek, near Stratton, McClure, Virginia.

29 Feb 1932 - Jim Williams. Born 'James Lee Williams' in Wythe County, Virginia.


In Memoriam:

05 Feb 1980 - Chubby Anthony. Gainesville, Alachua, Florida.

08 Feb 2003 - Ralph 'Joe' Meadows. Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland.

08 Feb 1987 - Harold 'Red' Stanley. Fentress, Tennessee.


For the Official Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys site, visit:

Ralph II ralph2.com

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Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild - S/T

(Rebel REB 1677) 1989


Ralph Stanley and Raymond Fairchild

Average Album Rating: 2
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This album was recorded at Maggard Studios in Big Stone Gap, Va. on 26th September 1989. It may not have been released until 1991 however, as it was not mentioned in 'Bluegrass Unlimited' until June '91 and was reviewed in August. In both cases they only listed the release as a cassette, so I don't think this album has appeared on CD or vinyl.

It got a lukewarm review in 'Bluegrass Unlimited'... which is understandable, but if you think of it as something along the lines of Curly Ray's albums it holds it's ground.

The album opens with a 'talking banjo' piece by Raymond, before a decent version of I'll Remember Your Love In My Prayers which Ralph first cut on Play Requests.

Mother No Longer Awaits Me At Home, She's More To Be Pitied and Let Me Walk, Lord, By Your Side are old Stanley Brothes numbers, whilst the Stanley's had also recorded Molly And Tenbrooks and Jacob's Vision. Live recordings also exist of them playing White House Blues and Pike County Breakdown.

Ralph And Raymond is a clawhammer instrumental, which sounds more than a little like Black-Eyed Suzie.

The remaining numbers are versions of Flatt & Scruggs' Cabin On The Hill and Bill Monroe's Summertime Is Past And Gone.

  • Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
  • Raymond Fairchild: guitar, banjo, vocals
  • Sammy Adkins: guitar
  • Curly Ray Cline: fiddle
  • Wallace Crowe: guitar
  • Wayne Crowe: bass

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
Raymond's Tribute To Ralph
02:19
26 Sep 1989
Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild

Raymond Fairchild
A-2
I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers
01:51
26 Sep 1989
Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild

William S. Hays
A-3
She's More To Be Pitied
02:52
26 Sep 1989
Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild

Ruby Rakes
A-4
Pike County Breakdown
02:03
26 Sep 1989
Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild

Bill Monroe
A-5
White House Blues
01:21
26 Sep 1989
Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild

P.D. ?
A-6
Let Me Walk Lord By Your Side
03:48
26 Sep 1989
Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild

C. Stanley
B-1
Ralph & Raymond
01:11
26 Sep 1989
Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild

Raymond Fairchild / R. Stanley
B-2
Summertime Is Past And Gone
01:59
26 Sep 1989
Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild

Bill Monroe
B-3
Molly And Tenbrooks
01:50
26 Sep 1989
Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild

Bill Monroe
B-4
Jacob's Vision
02:06
26 Sep 1989
Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild

P.D.
B-5
Cabin On The Hill
02:07
26 Sep 1989
Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild

B.L. Shook
B-6
Mother No Longer Awaits Me At Home
04:11
26 Sep 1989
Ralph Stanley & Raymond Fairchild

R. Stanley / C. Stanley
Other artwork / related images:
Cassette Cover

For the Official Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys site, visit:

Ralph II ralph2.com

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