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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Ralph Stanley - The Memory Of Your Smile

(Rebel REB 1606) 1981


The Memory Of Your Smile

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Recorded at Maggard Studios in Big Stone Gap, Va on the 17th December 1981, this is another decent album that regretably hasn't been issued on CD.

Five of the tracks are drawn from the Stanley Brothers back-catalogue, including Chubby Anthony's Highway Of Regret, Who Will Call You Sweetheart, Little Glass Of Wine, The Drunken Driver and The Memory Of Your Smile.

Donnie Joe Mullins, who wrote I've Got A Mule To Ride played banjo in The Rocky Mountain Boys. The original appears on their third LP 'I've Got A Mule To Ride' (Mountain And Grass RSR 1002) 1979. Junior Blankenship and his Dad, Hillard Blankenship Snr, also played in the band, and Hillard was also Ralph's bus driver. The Rocky Mountain Boys were regulars at Ralph's 'Hills Of Home' festival between 1976-84.[1]

Charlie Sizemore contributes The Melody Of Love, which I guess is his first composition to be recorded? He later included a version of the song on his first solo LP, Congratulations in 1985.

Walden Dahl, who wrote City Lights and What I Wanted Most also later co-wrote So Long So Wrong for Alison Krauss.

Another good 'un!

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

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
Highway Of Regret
02:23
17 Dec 1981
Memory Of Your Smile

Donald 'Chubby' Anthony
  Bjo Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
A-2
Melody Of Love
01:51
17 Dec 1981
Memory Of Your Smile

Charlie Sizemore
  Bjo Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
A-3
I've Got A Mule To Ride
01:47
17 Dec 1981
Memory Of Your Smile

Donnie Joe Mullins
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
A-4
Who Will Call You Sweetheart
02:29
17 Dec 1981
Memory Of Your Smile

C. Stanley / Bill Monroe
  Bjo Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
A-5
Bad Case Of The Blues
02:34
17 Dec 1981
Memory Of Your Smile

R. Stanley
  Bjo Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
A-6
Little Glass Of Wine
03:27
17 Dec 1981
Memory Of Your Smile

C. Stanley
  Ld Vcl - Bjo Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
B-1
City Lights
02:06
17 Dec 1981
Memory Of Your Smile

Walden Dahl
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
B-2
Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine
02:46
17 Dec 1981
Memory Of Your Smile

Jake Landers / Bill Monroe
  Bjo Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
B-3
What I Wanted Most
02:26
17 Dec 1981
Memory Of Your Smile

Walden Dahl
  Bjo Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
B-4
The Drunken Driver
03:13
17 Dec 1981
Memory Of Your Smile

Paul Westmoreland
  Bjo Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
B-5
The Memory Of Your Smile
02:43
17 Dec 1981
Memory Of Your Smile

Ruby Rakes
  Bjo Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
B-6
Bury Me Under The Pines
02:26
17 Dec 1981
Memory Of Your Smile

Rena Archuleta / R. Stanley
  Bjo Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 

NB: Liner notes don't specify instruments/vocal parts for individual tracks.

Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover Side One Side Two

[1] Junior played on The Rocky Mountain Boys first two albums, Burning Bluegrass and Homestead Bluegrass albums.

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

Ralph II ralph2.com

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