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.


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Ralph II ralph2.com

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Ralph Stanley - The Bottom Line Archive

(Bottom Line Archive BLRCD-017) 2017


The Bottom Line Archive

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This is a live recording made at the Bottom Line in New York on 12th June 2002. The gig was sponsored by Columbia records, and promoted the Ralph Stanley album on Columbia/DMZ, with nine of the songs from that album performed on stage, and the remainder being more familiar Stanley fayre.

Backing is provided by Mike Compton, Dennis Ceouch and Stuart Duncan, with James Alan Shelton 'filling in' for Norman Blake.

The sound quality is pretty good, and unlike some show-tapes has a nice 'warm' quality to it.

One highlight of the show is the closing song, Amazing Grace, where Ralph gets the audience to stand up, join hands, and sing along, whilst Ralph lines out the hymn. Ralph's a cappella rendition of I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers is also superb.

I'm guessing that this must have been a one-off performance, as Ralph was billed as appearing in Hazard, Ky the following day and the CMB's are listed as performing at a festival the previous weekend.[1]

A couple of things to note - the artwork lists the first track as O Death, but the CD has an a capella Twelve Gates To The City instead... and Ralph is also credited as playing banjo, when it's Stuart Duncan on both fiddle and banjo...

  • Ralph Stanley: vocals
  • Stuart Duncan: banjo, violin
  • Mike Compton: mandolin
  • Dennis Crouch: bass
  • James Alan Shelton: guitar

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Source:
A-1
Twelve Gates To The City
02:20
12 Jun 2002
New York

P.D.
  Ld Vcl            
  Ralph Stanley
         
 
A-2
Band Introductions
01:17
12 Jun 2002
New York

n/a
  Vcl            
  Ralph Stanley
         
 
A-3
Girl From The Greenbriar Shore
03:37
12 Jun 2002
New York

P.D.
  Ld Vcl Vio Mnd Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Stuart Duncan
Mike Compton
James Alan Shelton
Dennis Crouch
 
 
A-4
False Hearted Lover's Blues
05:11
12 Jun 2002
New York

W.E. Myers
  Ld Vcl Bjo Mnd Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Stuart Duncan
Mike Compton
James Alan Shelton
Dennis Crouch
 
 
A-5
Henry Lee
04:37
12 Jun 2002
New York

P.D.
  Ld Vcl Vio Mnd Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Stuart Duncan
Mike Compton
James Alan Shelton
Dennis Crouch
 
 
A-6
I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers
01:58
12 Jun 2002
New York

William S. Hays
  Ld Vcl            
  Ralph Stanley
         
 
A-7
Lift Him Up, That's All
05:16
12 Jun 2002
New York

Washington Phillips
  Ld Vcl Bjo Mnd Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Stuart Duncan
Mike Compton
James Alan Shelton
Dennis Crouch
 
 
A-8
Wild Bill Jones
02:27
12 Jun 2002
New York

Washington Phillips
  Ld Vcl Vio Mnd Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Stuart Duncan
Mike Compton
James Alan Shelton
Dennis Crouch
 
 
A-9
Hemlock And Primroses
03:26
12 Jun 2002
New York

Landon Messer
  Ld Vcl Vio Mnd Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Stuart Duncan
Mike Compton
James Alan Shelton
Dennis Crouch
 
 
A-10
Look On And Cry
03:54
12 Jun 2002
New York

P.D.
  Ld Vcl Vio Mnd Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Stuart Duncan
Mike Compton
James Alan Shelton
Dennis Crouch
 
 
A-11
Calling You
03:57
12 Jun 2002
New York

Hank Williams
  Ld Vcl Hrmny Vcl - Vio Hrmny Vcl - Mnd Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Stuart Duncan
Mike Compton
James Alan Shelton
Dennis Crouch
 
 
A-12
Pretty Polly
04:11
12 Jun 2002
New York

P.D.
  Ld Vcl Bjo Mnd Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Stuart Duncan
Mike Compton
James Alan Shelton
Dennis Crouch
 
 
A-13
Great High Mountain
04:44
12 Jun 2002
New York

P.D. arr R. Stanley
  Ld Vcl Mnd Gtr        
  Ralph Stanley
Mike Compton
James Alan Shelton
 
 
 
 
A-14
Man Of Constant Sorrow
04:25
12 Jun 2002
New York

R.D. Burnett
  Ld Vcl Vio Mnd Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Stuart Duncan
Mike Compton
James Alan Shelton
Dennis Crouch
 
 
A-15
Amazing Grace
04:16
12 Jun 2002
New York

John Newton
  Ld Vcl            
  Ralph Stanley
         
 

NB: Liner notes don't specify instruments/vocal parts for individual tracks, so the above is guesswork.

Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover Inner Page

[1] 13th June 2002 Hazard Kentucky - Memorial Gym. 'Bluegrass Unlimited' June 2002 (p. 86)

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

Ralph II ralph2.com

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