(Mountain Records 1001) 1987
Recorded in 1987 at Lowell Varney's Riverside Sound Studio, this album features Ralph singing high tenor on all tracks, except the two instrumentals, Sally Gooden and Soldier's Joy.
Curly Ray Cline plays fiddle on all the cuts except Soldier's Joy, which is a short but sweet dual banjo with Ralph playing clawhammer and Lowell Varney playing 3-finger style.
Sally Gooden is similarly a duet with Lowell Varney on banjo and Curly Ray on fiddle.
Ralph had recorded at Riverside on occasion, from 1979 onwards. In March 1986, the Clinch Mountain Boys had cut the Singing Sixteen Years cassette, which featured two numbers re-recorded here: Sixteen Years, an autobiographical song by Lowell Varney; and Walking After Midnight which was originally written and recorded by Roy McMillan as Wanderin' In The Darkness.
The album was later issued on Cassette as 'Loving You Too Well' (River Track Studios RTS-1416) 1990, with a slightly different track order.
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Title: |
Time: |
Date: |
Original Release: |
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A-1 |
Sixteen Years |
03:02 |
1987 |
...With Ralph Stanley |
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Lowell Varney |
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A-2 |
Willy Roy |
02:22 |
1987 |
...With Ralph Stanley |
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P.D. |
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A-3 |
How Mountain Girls Can Love |
01:47 |
1987 |
...With Ralph Stanley |
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Ruby Rakes |
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A-4 |
Let Me Walk Lord By Your Side |
03:24 |
1987 |
...With Ralph Stanley |
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C. Stanley |
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A-5 |
Salley Gooden |
02:16 |
1987 |
...With Ralph Stanley |
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P.D. |
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A-6 |
Loving You Too Well |
02:27 |
1987 |
...With Ralph Stanley |
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C. Stanley |
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B-1 |
To Sweet To Last (Sweetest Love) |
02:09 |
1987 |
...With Ralph Stanley |
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C. Stanley |
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B-2 |
How Would You Like Being Lonesome (Will You Be Lonesome) |
02:44 |
1987 |
...With Ralph Stanley |
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Alton Delmore |
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B-3 |
Crying My Heart Out (Over You) |
02:15 |
1987 |
...With Ralph Stanley |
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Carl Robert Butler / Louise Certain / George Sherry / Gladys Stacey |
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B-4 |
Walking After Midnight |
02:31 |
1987 |
...With Ralph Stanley |
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Roy McMillan |
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B-5 |
Mighty Dark To Travel |
02:01 |
1987 |
...With Ralph Stanley |
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Bill Monroe |
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B-6 |
Soldier's Joy |
02:01 |
1987 |
...With Ralph Stanley |
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P.D. |
[1] Gary B. Reid's book "The Music Of The Stanley Brothers" (p. 68)
[2] http://son-pressings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/blue-jay-102.html
[3] John Wright's book "Traveling The High Way Home" (p. 23).