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 Stanley - Saturday Night

(Freeland Recording Co. FRC-CD643) 1992


Saturday Night

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Recorded at sessions in May and October 1992 at Music Row Audio, Nashville, Tn. This is the secular half of the Saturday Night / Sunday Morning 2xCD set.

As might be expected given the different guest vocalists, the album is a bit uneven, but no doubt was commercially successful.

The CD opens with the Clinch Mountain Boys performing Mountain Folks by Roy McMillan. This was originally recorded on his 'Time To Think' (Rebel SLP 1540) LP in 1975. Ralph's version is a bit different and much faster, with Ernie Thacker on lead vocal. Roy was responsible from some great songs including Cold Wind and Wanderin' In The Darkness aka When You Go Walkin' After Midnight.

Old Man's Tears by A.J. Mickey Burke is one of three tracks featuring Judy Marshall from The Marshall Family. Ralph had previously recorded two of her songs: Waitin' For The Master To Come on Back To The Cross; and Beautiful (Is The Land Where I'm Going) on Pray For The Boys. The Marshall Family were a family Gospel band that Ralph discovered in 1974 and which played at several of his festivals. Judy's brother David Marshall also had songs recorded by Ralph, and he played some clawhammer on David Marshall's Song Of Poverty LP. Another sibling, Dan Marshall, had two tenures as a CMB appearing on Ralph's Old Home Place, Clinch Mountain Gospel and Down Where The River Bends albums.

Down Where The River Bends had previously been cut on Down Where The River Bends...

All I Ever Loved Was You by Dorothy Skaggs was previously recorded on the Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs - Second Generation Bluegrass and Ralph's Play Requests LPs.

Midnight Storm, an old Stanley Brothers number was first recorded on Ralph's Hills Of Home LP.

All The Good Times Are Past And Gone had been featured on the Live In Japan set.

I Never Will Marry hadn't been recorded by Ralph before, but The Stanley Brothers did participate in singing it with Pete Seeger on his 'Rainbow Quest' TV show in early 1966.

Banks Of The Ohio had been in The Stanley Brothers repertoire and appears on some of their live recordings.

I Love No One But You was from The Stanley Brothers Columbia period, and had been re-recorded for the Keith Whitely & Ricky Skaggs - Tribute To The Stanley Brothers LP.

Sea Of Regret by The Sloas Brothers had been recorded for the Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs - Second Generation Bluegrass LP.

Tom T. Hall's The Water Lily was later featured on Don Rigsby's 'Doctor's Orders (A Tribute to Ralph Stanley)' CD.

I'll Never Grow Tired Of You was from The Stanley Brothers period at Mercury and was recorded again for the Clinch Mountain Sweethearts set.

Roy Lee Centers' and Archie Jones' All The Love I Had Is Gone had been recorded by Ralph for his Play Requests LP.

  • Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
  • Junior Blankenship: lead guitar
  • Curly Ray Cline: fiddle
  • Jack Cooke: bass
  • Shelton Feazell: bass vocal
  • Art Stamper: fiddle
  • Ernie Thacker: guitar, mandolin vocals

 

Track:
Vocals:
Title:
Time:
Date:
A-1
Ralph Stanley w/ Ernie Thacker
Mountain Folks
01:56
May/Oct 1992

Roy McMillan
A-2
Ralph Stanley w/ Dwight Yoakam
Down Where The River Bends
02:56
May/Oct 1992

Jack Anglin / George Peek / Johnnie Wright
A-3
Ralph Stanley w/ Judy Marshall & Emmylou Harris
Old Man Tears
01:53
May/Oct 1992

A.J. 'Mickey' Burke
A-4
Ralph Stanley w/ Ricky Skaggs
All I Ever Loved Was You
03:14
May/Oct 1992

Dorothy Skaggs
A-5
Ralph Stanley w/ Vince Gill
Midnight Storm
03:13
May/Oct 1992

C. Stanley / R. Stanley
A-6
Ralph Stanley w/ Jimmy Martin
All The Good Times Are Past And Gone
02:38
May/Oct 1992

P.D.
A-7
Ralph Stanley w/ Emmylou Harris & Judy Marshall
I Never Will Marry
02:41
May/Oct 1992

A.P. Carter
A-8
Ralph Stanley w/ Charlie Waller
Banks Of The Ohio
03:02
May/Oct 1992

P.D.
A-9
Ralph Stanley w/ Charlie Sizemore
I Love No One But You
02:25
May/Oct 1992

C. Stanley
A-10
Ralph Stanley w/ Ricky Skaggs
Sea Of Regret
03:20
May/Oct 1992

Kenneth Sloas / David Sloas
A-11
Ralph Stanley w/ Tom T. Hall & Judy Marshall
The Water Lily
02:27
May/Oct 1992

Tom T. Hall / Henry Lawson
A-12
Ralph Stanley w/ Patty Loveless
I'll Never Grow Tired Of You
02:22
May/Oct 1992

C. Stanley
A-13
Ralph Stanley w/ Larry Sparks
All The Love I Had Is Gone
02:52
May/Oct 1992

Roy Lee Centers / Archie Jones
A-14
Ralph Stanley w/ George Jones
Wonderful World Outside
02:59
May/Oct 1992

C. Stanley / R. Stanley
A-15
Ralph Stanley w/ Bill Monroe
Letter From My Darling
02:59
May/Oct 1992

Bill Monroe

NB: Liner notes don't specify instruments/vocal parts for individual tracks.

Other artwork / related images:
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