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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James Alan Shelton - Guitar Tracks

(Copper Creek CCCD-0178) 1999


James Alan Shelton - Guitar Tracks

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This was James' second instrumental album for Copper Creek, which was recorded at Maggard Studio in Big Stone Gap, Va. and released in 1999.

The CD opens with the standard fiddle tune Sugarfoot Rag, which suprisingly hasn't been recorded (as far as I know) by the Stanley's or CMB's other than on Curly Ray's The Deputy. Several of the tracks will be familiar to Stanley fans, though it's still nice to hear James' treatments of tracks like Snow Deer, Tragic Romance and Ralph's favourite - Cannonball Blues. The album also includes two originals by James: the haunting (groan) The Ghost Train and Road Weary Blues which also has fine breaks by James Price / Steve Sparkman.

As one would expect many tracks are dominated by the guitar, but James Price / Steve Sparkman and Adam Steffey provide some variety to proceedings, with a lively rendition of I'll Fly Away, Lost Indian and Sugarfoot Rag sounding particularly fine.

Original copies now seem very hard to find, but fortunately James reissued it along with Road To Coeburn on CD-R in 2012 as The Copper Creek Sessions, and this is a little easier to get hold of.

  • James Alan Shelton: lead guitar
  • Barry Bales: bass
  • James Price: fiddle
  • Steve Sparkman: banjo
  • Ralph II Stanley: guitar
  • Adam Steffey: mandolin

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
Sugarfoot Rag
02:48
1999
Guitar Tracks

H. Garland / G. Vaughn
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
A-2
Old Spinning Wheel
02:54
1999
Guitar Tracks

P.D.
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
A-3
Barbara Allen
02:49
1999
Guitar Tracks

P.D.
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
A-4
Cannonball Blues
02:05
1999
Guitar Tracks

A.P. Carter
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
A-5
The Ghost Train
03:20
1999
Guitar Tracks

James Alan Shelton
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
A-6
I'll Fly Away
02:42
1999
Guitar Tracks

Albert E. Brumley
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
A-7
Road Weary Blues
03:13
1999
Guitar Tracks

James Alan Shelton
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
A-8
Tragic Romance
02:14
1999
Guitar Tracks

Wiley Morris / Zeke Morris
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
A-9
Snow Deer
02:26
1999
Guitar Tracks

P.D.
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
A-10
Lost Indian
02:45
1999
Guitar Tracks

P.D.
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
A-11
Rosewood Casket
02:41
1999
Guitar Tracks

P.D.
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
A-12
Sweet Bye And Bye
02:28
1999
Guitar Tracks

Samuel Fillmore Bennet / Joseph P. Webster
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
A-13
Shenandoah
02:27
1999
Guitar Tracks

P.D.
  Ld Gtr Gtr Bjo Mnd Bs    
  James Alan Shelton
Ralph Stanley II
Steve Sparkman
Adam Steffey
Barry Bales
   
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