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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Nathan Stanley - The Legacy Continues

(No Label NS-007) 2013 / (Willow Creek No #) 2014


Nathan Stanley - The Legacy Continues

Average Album Rating: 1.5
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Nathan's 6th album, recorded at Maggard Sound, in Big Stone Gap, Va. features the Clinch Mountain Boys on backing.

It's not a bad album by any means, but I find Nathan's vocal style a bit too smooth for my tastes.

The Stanley Melody track is a medley of bits from Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms, Long Journey Home and Moutain Dew.

The reissue on Willow Creek adds two tracks featuring Ralph. Both have also been reissued on other albums: Rank Stranger is the same version which has appeared on Nathan & Ralph Stanley - Gospel Favorites and American Icon: The Definitive Collection; and Where Could I Go But To The Lord is the same version as on Nathan & Ralph Stanley - Gospel Favorites.

  • Nathan Stanley: lead vocal (a)
  • Junior Blankenship: lead guitar
  • Dewey Brown: fiddle, harmony vocal
  • Randall Hibbitts: bass, harmony vocal
  • Mitchell Van Dyke: banjo
  • Tony Dingus: dobro
  • Brad Paisley: lead vocal (b)
  • Don Rigsby: mandolin, fiddle, harmony vocals, bass vocals (c)
  • Ralph Stanley: lead/tenor vocal (d)

NB: (a) tenor vocals on Will You Miss Me.
(b) lead vocal on Will You Miss Me only.
(c) bass vocal on Will You Miss Me.
(d) Ralph shares lead and tenor vocal on Rank Stranger and Where Could I Go But To The Lord - on the Willow Creek reissue only.

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
Are You Missing Me
03:21
c2013
Legacy Continues

Ira Louvin / Charles Louvin
A-2
Meet Me By The Moonlight
02:46
c2013
Legacy Continues

Joseph Augustine Wade
A-3
Casualty Of War
04:27
c2013
Legacy Continues

Connie Leigh
A-4
Nobody's Love Is Like Mine
02:18
c2013
Legacy Continues

C. Stanley
A-5
Papaw I Love You
02:54
c2013
Legacy Continues

Nathan Stanley / Randall Hibbitts
A-6
Will You Miss Me
04:08
c2013
Legacy Continues

A.P. Carter
A-7
Let Me Rest (At The End Of My Journey)
02:08
c2013
Legacy Continues

R. Stanley / C. Stanley
A-8
Tears Of A Friend
03:47
c2013
Legacy Continues

James H. Vaughn
A-9
Love Of The Mountains
02:45
c2013
Legacy Continues

Allen Mills
A-10
Golden Years
03:40
c2013
Legacy Continues

Don Rigsby
A-11
All The Love I Had Is Gone
02:56
c2013
Legacy Continues

Dorothy Skaggs
A-12
Stanley Melody
02:49
c2013
Legacy Continues

P.D. / Bascom Lamar Lunsford
A-13
I Don't Want Your Rambling Letters
03:47
c2013
Legacy Continues

Nathaniel Nathan / Ray Starr / Gene C. Redd
A-14
Calling My Children Home
03:10
c2013
Legacy Continues

P.D.

NB: On the Willow Creek reissue, the tracks are in a different sequence, and there are two additonal tracks - Rank Stranger (03:03) and Where Could I Go But To The Lord (03:46).

Other artwork / related images:
Front Cover (Willow Creek) Rear Cover (Willow Creek)

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

Ralph II ralph2.com

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