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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Clinch Mountain Echo

Lowell Varney, Landon Messer and Riverside Grass - With Ralph Stanley

(Mountain Records 1001) 1987


Lowell Varney, Landon Messer and Riverside Grass - With Ralph Stanley

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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.

  • Lowell Varney: banjo, vocal
  • Ralph Stanley: high tenor
  • Curly Ray Cline: fiddle
  • Landon Messer: guitar, vocal
  • Jim Horn: bass, vocal
  • Harold Brewer: lead guitar, harmonica
  • Albun Cleveger: mandolin

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
Sixteen Years
03:02
1987
...With Ralph Stanley

Lowell Varney
A-2
Willy Roy
02:22
1987
...With Ralph Stanley

P.D.
A-3
How Mountain Girls Can Love
01:47
1987
...With Ralph Stanley

Ruby Rakes
A-4
Let Me Walk Lord By Your Side
03:24
1987
...With Ralph Stanley

C. Stanley
A-5
Salley Gooden
02:16
1987
...With Ralph Stanley

P.D.
A-6
Loving You Too Well
02:27
1987
...With Ralph Stanley

C. Stanley
B-1
To Sweet To Last
(Sweetest Love)
02:09
1987
...With Ralph Stanley

C. Stanley
B-2
How Would You Like Being Lonesome
(Will You Be Lonesome)
02:44
1987
...With Ralph Stanley

Alton Delmore
B-3
Crying My Heart Out (Over You)
02:15
1987
...With Ralph Stanley

Carl Robert Butler / Louise Certain / George Sherry / Gladys Stacey
B-4
Walking After Midnight
02:31
1987
...With Ralph Stanley

Roy McMillan
B-5
Mighty Dark To Travel
02:01
1987
...With Ralph Stanley

Bill Monroe
B-6
Soldier's Joy
02:01
1987
...With Ralph Stanley

P.D.
Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover Side One Side Two Loving You Too Well (Cass.)

[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).

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

Ralph II ralph2.com

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