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

Spotlight on:-

The Angels Are Singing
(Columbia Harmony HL-7377)


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Various Artists - Wango EP-109

(Wango EP-109) 1970


Side One

The third Wango 7" Gospel EP includes just one Stanley Brothers track, which had originally been issued on the John's Gospel Quartet LP.

I'll Fly Away/In The Sweet Bye & Bye is a short instrumental medley with Ralph and George Shuffler alternating banjo/guitar breaks.

The other cuts include a recitation by Ray Davis of Father's Table Grace with what sounds like Don Reno providing backing, plus another Don Reno/Bill Harrell track. Side two has a lengthy recitation of Orphan Joe by Ray Davis, which has different backing to the version on Plum Pitiful Vol. 1. (The EP version features church organ backing whereas the Plum Pitiful version is backed by Don Reno & Bill Harrell.) According to the liner notes to Plum Pitiful, the version with organ backing was recorded in 1965 and 'sold thousands of copies' around Baltimore.

Gary Reid tells us that the 7" EP was likely released in 1970.

 

For detailed information on the Stanley Brothers songs/sessions check Gary B. Reid's The Music Of The Stanley Brothers book, pages 174-176, and 210.

 

Track:
Artist:
Title:
Time:
Date:
A-1
Ray Davis
Father's Table Grace
02:17
19??

Othro Jones / Homer L. Sewell
  Gtr Bjo Mnd        
  Bill Harrell
Don Reno
Ronnie Reno
 
 
 
 
A-2
Don Reno & Bill Harrell
Mom's Faded Old Sunbonnet
03:09
19??

P.D. ?
  Gtr Bjo Mnd        
  Bill Harrell
Don Reno
Ronnie Reno
 
 
 
 
A-2
Stanley Brothers
I'll Fly Away / In The Sweet Bye And Bye
01:51
?? Dec 1963

Albert E. Brumley / Samuel Fillmore Bennet - Joseph P. Webster
  Gtr Vcl - Bjo Vcl - Ld Gtr Vcl - Gtr Bs    
  Carter Stanley
Ralph Stanley
George Shuffler
Jack Cooke
Henry Dockery
 
 
B-1
Ray Davis
Little Orphan Joe
05:04
19??

N/A
Other artwork / related images:
Side Two

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

Ralph II ralph2.com


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