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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...And His Lonesome Pine Fiddle
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Buddy Moore & Ralph Stanley - s/t?

(????) 1983?


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I only have this on MP3, so I'm guessing that it was a cassette released c1983. Buddy Moore worked live with the CMB's c1982-83 and appeared on Ralph's Live At The Old Homeplace LP, so 1983 seems the most probable date.[1]

From Kermit, Wv. Buddy Moore was nicknamed 'Hook 'n' Beans' by Ralph who introduced him in 1983 saying "he sings it the old time way, and he really puts the feeling (in)to it". On the same show Buddy was introduced as Little Buddy Moore and Henry Moore.

Nine of the tracks feature Buddy on vocals, with one instrumental Amazing Grace. Buddy's vocals have a lot of soul, and fit Ralph's tenor nicely, but they are quite rough around the edges in places.

In additon to this cassette, he recorded a gospel tape[2]; at least two as Hook And Beans (...with Ralph Stanley And The Clinch Mountain Boys & The Girl I Left Behind); and another as Sammy Adkins and Buddy Moore - Sweetest Love.

The Hook & Beans band were advertised on the bill for Ralph's 'Hills Of Home' festival in 1989 and 1990, and there's some footage too from the '80s when the festival was relocated to Roxanna with Buddy, Sammy Adkins & Dan Marshall.[3]

I'm also guessing that Dan Marshall plays mandolin on the tape, as it contains a song called This Old Town which Ralph recorded as Hometown in 1978 on Down Where The River Bends, and which was written by Dan.

If anyone has more info on this tape, or a copy, please get in touch via the Contact page!

  • Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
  • Buddy Moore: guitar, vocals
  • Junior Blankenship: lead guitar
  • Curly Ray Cline: fiddle
  • Jack Cooke: bass
  • Charlie Sizemore: guitar
  • Dan Marshall: mandolin

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
Memories Of Mother
02:49
c1983
Buddy Moore & Ralph Stanley

C. Stanley
A-2
Wings Of Angels
02:26
c1983
Buddy Moore & Ralph Stanley

Ruby Rakes
A-3
I'm Dying A Sinner's Death
02:06
c1983
Buddy Moore & Ralph Stanley

Jim Anglin
A-4
Zion's Hill
02:43
c1983
Buddy Moore & Ralph Stanley

James A. Crutchfield
A-5
Amazing Grace
02:26
c1983
Buddy Moore & Ralph Stanley

John Newton
B-1
Rank Stranger
02:53
c1983
Buddy Moore & Ralph Stanley

Albert E. Brumley
B-2
That Little Old Country Church House
02:13
c1983
Buddy Moore & Ralph Stanley

Connie Leigh
B-3
This Old Town (Hometown)
02:15
c1983
Buddy Moore & Ralph Stanley

Dan Marshall
B-4
Who Will Sing For Me
02:22
c1983
Buddy Moore & Ralph Stanley

John Thomas Ely / Carter Stanley
B-5
Lonely Tombs
03:15
c1983
Buddy Moore & Ralph Stanley

P.D.
Other artwork / related images:

[1] Ralph introduces Buddy as the newest member of the group at approx 12:50 of the Banjo Cafe, Santa Monica, Ca. 18th April 1983, saying he'd been with them about 11 or 12 months: https://youtu.be/DmQ3BbV_IIQ?t=12m50s
[2] "it's all gospel, it's Honey In The Rock, The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn, Nobody Answered Me, I'll Wear A White Robe, Shake Hands With Mother, Hand In Hand With Jesus, White Dove, Purple Robe, Are You Washed In The Blood and Memories Of Mother. It's all Stanley Brothers old stuff... https://youtu.be/DmQ3BbV_IIQ?t=1h26m22s
[3] eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv4-2dvHwRY

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

Ralph II ralph2.com


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