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

(Mountain Records 1001) 1987

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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

Other artwork / related images:

[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).