Clinch Mountain Echo

CMB Birthdays this month:

04 May 1922 - Harold 'Red' Stanley. Born 'Harold Oplis Stanley' in Fentress, Tennessee.

18 May 1938 - Henry Dockery. Walnut Marsh, North Carolina.

28 May 1956 - Ralph 'Hank' Smith. Born 'Ralph Dewayne Smith' in Elliott County, Kentucky.


In Memoriam:

02 May 1974 - Roy Lee Centers. Breathitt County, Kentucky.

03 May 2000 - Bill Napier. Johnson City, Tennessee.

09 May 1989 - Keith Whitley. Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee.

23 May 2022 - James Price. Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia.


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

Ralph II ralph2.com

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Curly Ray Cline - The Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

(Old Homestead OHS 70047) 1982


The Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

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Recorded on 17th Dec 1981 at Maggard Studios in Big Stone Gap, Va. at the sessions for Ralph's Memory Of Your Smile LP.

This all instrumental album seems to be quite scarce. It features a fair amount of quality lead guitar from Junior Blankenship, which adds variety and Charlie Sizemore also gets to play lead guitar on one track, Little Black Train. (Prior to joining the CMB's Charlie played lead guitar for the Goins Brothers, with a live video from 1977 Wise County Shriners Bluegrass festival available from Appalshop Archive.)

Although Ralph usually sticks to backing on Curly's albums he also provides banjo breaks to Lonley Tombs, Swing Low Sweet Chariot and When The Saints Go Marching In. The Stanley Brothers also recorded Lonely Tombs, but this is the only version with a break by Ralph (mis-titled Lovely Tombs on the cover!).

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

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
Just Over In The Gloryland
02:21
17 Dec 1981
Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

J.E. Reynolds / W.P. Snyder
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Bs    
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
   
A-2
Little Black Train
01:38
17 Dec 1981
Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

P.D. arr Curly Ray Cline
  Fid Bjo Ld Gtr Gtr Bs    
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
   
A-3
Wings Of A Dove
02:53
17 Dec 1981
Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

Bob Ferguson
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Bs    
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
   
A-4
Battle Hymn Of The Republic
02:36
17 Dec 1981
Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

Julia Ward Howe
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Bs    
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
   
A-5
Lonely Tombs
01:37
17 Dec 1981
Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

P.D.
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Bs    
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
   
A-6
Why Me Lord
03:33
17 Dec 1981
Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

Kris Kristofferson
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Bs    
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
   
B-1
Me And Jesus
01:56
17 Dec 1981
Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

Tom T. Hall
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Bs    
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
   
B-2
Take A Little Time For Jesus
02:59
17 Dec 1981
Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

P.D. arr Curly Ray Cline
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Bs    
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
   
B-3
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
02:03
17 Dec 1981
Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

Wallis Willis (?)
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Bs    
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
   
B-4
I'm Gonna Eat At The Welcome Table
02:07
17 Dec 1981
Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

P.D. arr Curly Ray Cline
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Bs    
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
   
B-5
When The Saints Go Marching In
01:49
17 Dec 1981
Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

R.E. Winsett
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Bs    
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
   
B-6
What A Friend
04:09
17 Dec 1981
Old Kentucky Fox Hunter Plays Gospel

Joseph Scriven
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Bs    
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
   
Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover Side One Side Two

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