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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V/A - Friends Of Old Time Music

(Folkways FA-2390) 1964


Friends Of Old Time Music

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This Various Artists album features live recordings by artists that performed at the 'Friends Of Old Time Music' shows in New York, between 1961 and 1963. The 'Friends Of Old Time Music' were a non-profit organisation that endeavoured to bring traditional folk artists to the 'Big Apple' to show New Yorkers the 'real deal'.

The Stanleys are represented by three cuts, which are taken from the 1961 Chicago Folk Festival, which has subsequently been reissued on the 2xCD set Folk Festival. Two of the tracks (Little Birdie and Rabbit In A Log) have also appeared on the Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways CD.

The original release came with an insert giving background information to the songs/artists, and miniature reproductions of the 'Friends Of Old Time' concert posters.

The album was reissued on custom CD-R in 2007, and is still available from Smithsonian Folkways, along with a pdf of the LP booklet/artwork.

There is also a version of this LP on the Disc label (Disc D-113), but I'm not sure when or where this was produced.

  • Carter Stanley: guitar, vocals
  • Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
  • Vernon Derrick: fiddle
  • Curley Lambert: mandolin
  • George Shuffler: lead guitar
  • Chick Stripling/Mike Seeger: bass

 

For detailed information on the songs/sessions check Gary B. Reid's The Music Of The Stanley Brothers book pages 120-122 and 189-90.

 

Track:
Artist:
Title:
Time:
Date:
A-1
Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton
Double File
01:55
196?

??
A-2
Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton
Hick's Farewell
04:31
196?

??
A-3
Hobart Smith
Soldier's Joy
01:42
196?

P.D.
A-4
Hobart Smith
Claude Allen
03:48
196?

??
A-5
Mississippi John Hurt
Monday Morning Blues
05:58
196?

??
A-6
Mississippi John Hurt
Pallet On The Floor
04:36
196?

??
A-7
Almeda Riddle
Chick-A-La-Lee-O
03:02
196?

??
A-8
Stanley Brothers
Come All Ye Tender Hearted
03:38
04 Feb 1961

P.D.
B-1
Stanley Brothers
Little Birdie
02:40
05 Feb 1961

P.D.
B-2
Stanley Brothers
Rabbit In The Log
02:24
05 Feb 1961

Pete Kirby
B-3
Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson
Dark Holler Blues
04:57
196?

??
B-4
Jesse Fuller
What Did I Do To Be So Black And Blue
03:43
196?

??
B-5
Dock Boggs
Mistreated Mama Blues
02:07
196?

??
B-6
Roscoe Holcomb
Hook & Line
00:31
196?

??
B-7
Roscoe Holcomb
Pretty Fair Miss All In A Garden
03:55
196?

P.D.
B-8
Howard, Price, Watson
He's Coming In Glory Some Day
02:48
196?

??
Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover Side One Side Two Gig Poster
Front Cover (Disc) Rear Cover (Disc) Side One (Disc) Side Two (Disc)
Front Cover (CD-R) Rear Cover (CD-R)

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