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.


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Chubby Anthony - Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

With Big Timber Bluegrass

(Old Homestead OHS-90085) 1978


Chubby Anthony - Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

Average Album Rating: 3.5
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This exquisite bluegrass fiddle album, was the first release for Chubby Anthony after he'd quit playing professionally in the late '60s.

Recorded at Patterson Studios in Winter Haven, Fl. in July 1976, it wasn't mixed until 12th Sept 1977, and presumably released in early 1978.

Frank J. Godbey, reviewing the album in 'Bluegrass Unlimited' Nov. 1978, hit the nail on the head:- "Chubby Anthony is a 'bluegrass' musician. His total effort is in the application of the fiddle... to 'bluegrass' music. This means several things to me: Blues - lonesome notes and mournful sounds, for one; complementing an ensemble for another; an impassioned attack with emphasis on rhythm and timing for yet another. All this and more is what Anthony gives us in this album of 'bluegrass' interpretations of some standard fiddle tunes.... Technically Anthony uses lots of double stops and slides and a very taut bow to get that wailing bluegrass sound. He is very much of the same school as Benny Martin or the late Scott Stoneman in the way he handles his instrument. There is a passion in his playing that would not come out if he played like Kenny Baker, for example.... as a fiddle album there may be others that, for some, would be more satisfactory, but as 'bluegrass' music this can't be beat."

Chubby was definitely one of the greatest fiddlers to play with The Clinch Mountain Boys. Like a lot of the Old Homestead recordings however, the pressing quality isn't particularly great. Also on one track, it sounds like the bass cuts out for part of the track... but as I've only found this album as an MP3 copy on the internet, I can't be sure whether the vinyl has the same fault.

  • Chubby Anthony: fiddle
  • Chuck Denmark: mandolin
  • Ronnie Pert: guitar
  • Steve Pruitt: banjo
  • John Thompson: bass

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
Twinkle Little Star
02:44
Jul 1976
Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

P.D.
  Fid Mnd Gtr Bjo Bs    
  Chubby Anthony
Chuck Denmark
Ronnie Pert
Steve Pruitt
John Thompson
   
A-2
Listen To The Mockingbird
03:03
Jul 1976
Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

P.D.
  Fid Mnd Gtr Bjo Bs    
  Chubby Anthony
Chuck Denmark
Ronnie Pert
Steve Pruitt
John Thompson
   
A-3
Patty On The Turnpike
03:04
Jul 1976
Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

P.D.
  Fid Mnd Gtr Bjo Bs    
  Chubby Anthony
Chuck Denmark
Ronnie Pert
Steve Pruitt
John Thompson
   
A-4
Come Walk With Me
03:24
Jul 1976
Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

Buck 'Uncle Josh' Graves
  Fid Mnd Gtr Bjo Bs    
  Chubby Anthony
Chuck Denmark
Ronnie Pert
Steve Pruitt
John Thompson
   
A-5
Me And My Fiddle
02:44
Jul 1976
Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

T. Hill / L. Fike
  Fid Mnd Gtr Bjo Bs    
  Chubby Anthony
Chuck Denmark
Ronnie Pert
Steve Pruitt
John Thompson
   
A-6
Tennessee Wagoneer
02:38
Jul 1976
Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

P.D.
  Fid Mnd Gtr Bjo Bs    
  Chubby Anthony
Chuck Denmark
Ronnie Pert
Steve Pruitt
John Thompson
   
B-1
Medley (Leather Britches / Cacklin' Hen)
02:58
Jul 1976
Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

P.D.
  Fid Mnd Gtr Bjo Bs    
  Chubby Anthony
Chuck Denmark
Ronnie Pert
Steve Pruitt
John Thompson
   
B-2
Lee Highway (Blues)
02:58
Jul 1976
Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

G.B. Grayson
  Fid Mnd Gtr Bjo Bs    
  Chubby Anthony
Chuck Denmark
Ronnie Pert
Steve Pruitt
John Thompson
   
B-3
Maiden's Prayer
03:19
Jul 1976
Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska
  Fid Mnd Gtr Bjo Bs    
  Chubby Anthony
Chuck Denmark
Ronnie Pert
Steve Pruitt
John Thompson
   
B-4
Bully Of The Town
01:42
Jul 1976
Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

Charles E. Trevathan
  Fid Mnd Gtr Bjo Bs    
  Chubby Anthony
Chuck Denmark
Ronnie Pert
Steve Pruitt
John Thompson
   
B-5
Sally Johnson
02:14
Jul 1976
Fiddlin' Chubby Anthony

P.D.
  Fid Mnd Gtr Bjo Bs    
  Chubby Anthony
Chuck Denmark
Ronnie Pert
Steve Pruitt
John Thompson
   
Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover

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