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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V/A - Families Of Bluegrass: An American Tradition

(Man-do-lin FBG001-DVD) 2010


V/A - Families Of Bluegrass: An American Tradition

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This is a compilation drawn from Ronnie Reno's "Old Time Music Festival" TV show. Two songs are featured by Ralph Stanley from 1993 with Ernie Thacker on lead vocal, plus In The Pines by The Stanley Brothers.

The two Ralph Stanley tracks were re-broadcast on RFD-TV in a 2001 edition of Ronnie's "Old Time Music Festival", which also included a lovely version of Water Lily and a duet of Little Maggie with just Ralph on banjo and Ronnie Reno on mandolin. The show also included an interview, of which part has been also been used on the DVD set, plus an instrumental jam of Wildwood Flower with Jr. Blankenship, and Ronnie's brothers Dale & Don Wayne Reno.

In the interview (on the full show) Ralph mentions that they were half way through recording his Christmas Time With... album, which dates the appearance to sometime around April 1993, a few weeks before Curly Ray Cline retired.

The DVD version of Rank Stranger, where the CMB's are joined by Ronnie, Dale and Don Wayne Reno, fortunately doesn't have the rolling credits which were on the original broadcast. The full 2001 show was also available for a time as a low quality FLV file on the RFD 'Country Club' subscription service.

The version of In The Pines on the DVD by The Stanley Brothers is the same as on the Don Reno and Red Smiley - Bluegrass 1963 DVD, but is poorer quality.

Stanley fans will also get a kick out the Bluegrass Cardinals (Don & David Parmley) peformance, which includes a young Don Rigsby on fiddle and harmony vocal.

If anyone has a hi-definition copy of the full 2001 edition of Ronnie's "Old Time Music Festival" featuring Ralph, please get in touch via the Contact page! (I already have the one from the 'Country Club').

  • Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
  • Jr Blankenship: lead guitar
  • Curly Ray Cline: fiddle
  • Jack Cooke: bass
  • Ernie Thacker: guitar, vocals

 

Track:
Artist:
Title:
Date:
DVD
(1:03:58)
A-1
Del McCoury
Lonely Side Of Love
c19??

??
A-2
Del McCoury
A Good Man Like Me
c19??

??
A-3
Ralph Stanley
Mountain Folks
c Apr 1993

Roy McMillan
A-4
The Stanley Brothers
In The Pines
c1963

P.D.
A-5
The Whites
Lonesome Wind Blues
c19??

Wayne Raney
A-6
The Whites
I'm Just A Used To Be To You
c19??

Martin Christian ?
A-7
Alisa & Ramona Jones
Green Rolling Hills Of West Virginia
c19??

Leon Morris ?
A-8
Alisa & Ramona Jones
Whiskley Before Breakfast
c19??

P.D.
A-9
Ralph Stanley
Rank Stranger
c Apr 1993

Albert E. Brumley
A-10
Don & David Parmley
Mountain Laurel
c19??

Randall Hylton ?
A-11
Don & David Parmley
Home Above
c19??

??
A-12
Reno Brothers
Bye Bye Blues
c19??

P.D. arr. Reno
A-13
Don Reno & Red Smiley
Love Please Come Home
c1963

Leon Jackson
A-14
Cox Family
Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone
c19??

Dickey Lee / Allen Reybolds ?
A-15
Cox Family
I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap
c19??

Reno / Schroeder
A-16
Osborne Brothers
Midnight Flyer
c19??

Paul Craft
A-17
Osborne Brothers
Rocky Top
c19??

Boudleaux Bryant / Felice Bryant
Other artwork / related images:
DVD Jacket
Ralph and the CMB's Curly Ray Cline and Jr. Blankenship
Ralph, Ernie Thacker and Jack Cooke Ralph and Ronnie Reno
Ronnie Reno and Ernie Thacker Ralph and The CMB's with the Reno Brothers

[1] A later DVD 'Families Of Bluegrass - An American Tradition' from 2010 identifies the In The Pines clip as from 1962.

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