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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The Stanley Brothers - Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

(Cabin Creek CC-203) 1967


Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

Average Album Rating: 3.56
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Recorded on 5th June 1965, this was another 'quickie' album that didn't see the light of day until 1967.

With 22 songs featured and only a 30min playing time, the average track length on the album is about 1min 20sec, giving just enough time for a quick verse and chorus of each song.

According to Gary B. Reid's liner notes to the Rebel cassette reissue, the LPs were sold on Alex and Ola Belle Reed's radio show on WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia, and were only available for a limited time.

A second album by Don Reno and Benny Martin is also entitled 'Bluegrass Gospel Favorites' (Cabin Creek 204) 1967, and features similar artwork except it is printed in blue rather than orange.

Jack Cooke: "... we recorded some for Alex Campbell, was on Cabin Creek. I believe. That album was kindly mixed, we wanted to mix it up. Probably some of us didn't know all of the songs, maybe a couple of verses of each one. That's a collector, now you know. Cabin Creek, you can't get that any more..."[1]

This is another $100 plus item, and has only been reissued on cassette as 'Gospel Songs From Cabin Creek' (Rebel C-4303) 1990. The cassette too is also quite hard to find.

Five tracks from the album (Dust On The Bible, In The Sweet Bye & Bye, Where The Soul Never Dies, Lonesome Valley and Lord I'm Comin' Home) were reissued as part of the 'Country Blue Grass Jamboree' 2xLP (Mad-Bag Productions MB-288-289) 1977.

Thanks to Chris Wing for the scans of the cassette cover.

  • Carter Stanley: guitar, vocals
  • Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
  • Jack Cooke: guitar
  • Curley Lambert: mandolin
  • Sonny Miller: fiddle

 

For detailed information on these sessions, check Gary B. Reid's The Music Of The Stanley Brothers book, pages 190-191 and 217-218.

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
Where Could I Go
01:15
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

J.B. Coats
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
A-2
An Empty Mansion
01:17
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

Clarence A. Luttrell / Beuna Ora Bryant Karnes
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
A-3
Where The Soul Never Dies
01:03
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

William M. Golden
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
A-4
Dust On The Bible
01:17
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

J. Bailes / W. Bailes
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
A-5
Farther Along
01:59
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

W.B. Stevens
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
A-6
I Feel Like Traveling On
01:22
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

William Hunter
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
A-7
I Need The Prayers
01:40
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

James D. Vaughan
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
A-8
Softly And Tenderly
01:39
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

Will L. Thompson
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
A-9
When The Saints Go Marching In
01:01
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

R.E. Winsett
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
A-10
The Sweet Bye And Bye
01:30
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

Sanford Fillmore Bennett / Jospeh P. Webster
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
A-11
Take My Hand Precious Lord
01:33
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

Thomas A. Dorsey
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
B-1
When I Reach That City
01:20
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

Johnson Oatman
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
B-2
Won't It Be Wonderful There
01:13
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

James Rowe
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
B-3
Hold Fast To The Right
01:37
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

Peter P. Bilhorn
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
B-4
Matthew 24
01:09
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

??
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
B-5
Lonesome Valley
01:14
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

P.D. ?
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
B-6
Keep On The Sunny Side
01:10
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

A.P. Carter
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
B-7
How About You
01:37
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

Thomas A. Dorsey
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
B-8
The Gloryland Way
01:15
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

J. S. Torbett
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
B-9
Precious Memories
01:14
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

Johnnie Wright
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
B-10
Heaven's Light Is Shining On Me
01:04
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

P.D.?
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
B-11
Lord, I'm Coming Home
01:21
05 Jun 1965
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites

William J. Fitzpatrick
  Vcl - Gtr Vcl - Bjo Gtr Mnd Fid    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Jack Cooke
Curley Lambert
Sonny Miller

 
Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover Side One Side Two Rear Sleeve Picture
Gospel Songs From Cabin Creek (Cassette) Cassette Inlay

[1] John Wright's book "Traveling The High Way Home" (p. 136)

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