Clinch Mountain Echo

CMB Birthdays this month:

06 Dec 1936 - Jack Cooke. Born 'Vernon Crawford Cooke' in Dorchester, Wise, Virginia.

07 Dec 1955 - Sammy Adkins.

07 Dec 1931 - Bobby Osborne. Hyden, Kentucky.

16 Dec 1923 - Jay Hughes. St. Paul, Virginia.

17 Dec 1935 - Bill Napier. Born 'Billy Edward Napier' in Wise, Virginia.

20 Dec 1935 - Chubby Anthony. Born 'Donald Lee Anthony' in Lincolnton, North Carolina.

25 Dec 1919 - Curly Seckler. Born 'John Ray Sechler' in China Grove, North Carolina.

30 Dec 1933 - Melvin Goins. Born 'Melvin Glen Goins' in Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia.

30 Dec 1943 - Claude 'Buddy' Moore. Born Claude Moore in Pike, Kentucky.

31 Dec 1934 - Ralph 'Joe' Meadows. Born 'Ralph Joe Meadows' in Basin, Wyoming County, West Virginia.


In Memoriam:

01 Dec 1966 - Carter Stanley. Bristol, Virginia.

01 Dec 2009 - Ralph 'Hank' Smith. West Liberty, Kentucky.

02 Dec 2009 - Jack Cooke. Norton, Virginia.

15 Dec 1990 - Henry Dockery. South Carolina.

27 Dec 2013 - Al Elliott. Kingsport, Tennessee.

27 Dec 2017 - Curly Seckler. Nashville, Tennessee.

28 Dec 1977 - Leslie Keith. Tucson, Pima, Arizona.


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

Ralph II ralph2.com

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V/A - Winterhawk Scholarship Album

(Gordo 003) 1986


Winterhawk Scholarship Album

Average Album Rating: 2.5
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This album was recorded at the Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, 18th - 20th July 1986. As the name suggests it was released in order to raise funds for bluegrass music scholarships.

Ralph and the gang are featured playing Cotton-Eyed Joe. It appears to be the last recording to have been released featuring Charlie Sizemore on lead vocal, as he left the CMB's at the Milan, Mi. festival the following month. It's somewhat ironic that Charlie's last recording as a CMB was on an LP to raise money for scholarships, when he was leaving the band to become a student.

The album is a reasonable live effort, but it is very long - one side is too long for my turntable so I can't play the last track on one side completely...

  • Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
  • Jnr Blankenship: lead guitar
  • Curly Ray Cline: fiddle
  • Jack Cooke: bass
  • Charlie Sizemore: guitar, vocals

 

Track:
Artist:
Title:
Time:
Date:
A-1
Hot Rize
Nellie Cain
03:15
18-20 Jul 1986

Timothy Page O'Brien
A-2
Fiddlestyx
Lay, Leghorn, Lay
02:15
18-20 Jul 1986

??
A-3
Mike Henderson
Auction at the homeplace
04:29
18-20 Jul 1986

??
A-4
Pete Kuykendall
Shucking The Corn
01:48
18-20 Jul 1986

Buck Graves / Louise Certain / Gladys Stacey
A-5
Lee Allen & The Lonesome Sound
Little Boy Called Joe
02:54
18-20 Jul 1986

Marijohn Wilkin / Wayne P. Walker
A-6
The Lewis Family
Living Up On The Mountain
02:07
18-20 Jul 1986

Betty Jean Robinson (?)
A-7
Dry Branch Fire Squad
Church By The Road
04:17
18-20 Jul 1986

L.D. Laminack
B-1
Seldom Scene
Only A Hobo
03:01
18-20 Jul 1986

John Harold Ashe
B-2
Junior Daugherty
Sally Goodin
02:14
18-20 Jul 1986

P.D.
B-3
Hugh Moffatt
Carolina Star
04:15
18-20 Jul 1986

Hugh Moffatt
B-4
Ralph Stanley
Cotton-Eyed Joe
01:47
18-20 Jul 1986

P.D.
B-5
Tony Trischka & Skyline
Wishful Thinking
03:13
18-20 Jul 1986

??
B-6
Traver Hollow
Carolina Mountain Home
02:15
18-20 Jul 1986

??
B-7
Excalibur
Late Train To Nashville
02:55
18-20 Jul 1986

??
B-8
Nashville Bluegrass Band
Newborn Soul
02:08
18-20 Jul 1986

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Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover Side One Side Two Bluegrass Unlimited July 1986

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

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