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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Jim Lauderdale & Ralph Stanley - I Feel Like Singing Today

(Rebel REB-CD-1755) 1999


I Feel Like Singing Today

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This is the first of two decent collaborations between Jim Lauderdale and Ralph, and was recorded at Maggard Sound studios in Big Stone Gap, Va. It was nominated for a Grammy.

The song selections are broadly split between old Stanley Brothers material and songs written or co-written by Jim Lauderdale.

I must confess I don't really know anything about Jim, but he apparently was a bluegrass / Stanley Brothers fan as a child, and had become a prolific Nashvile singer-songwriter, with several albums within the Country/Americana field.

Jim had sung If I Lose with Ralph on the 1997 Clinch Mountain Country project, and in the same year Ralph and the CMBs helped Jim record I'll Lead You Home on his 'Whisper' CD.

A couple of the tracks (Joy, Joy Joy and I Will Wait For You) were co-written between Jim and Robert Hunter, the Grateful Dead's lyricist.

You'll Find Her Name Written There is an old Bill Monroe classic. It was written by Harold Hensley, who was a veteran fiddle player from White Top Mountain, Va. He had a stint on the Opry in 1943/44 and later moved to LA, performing on the weekly TV show 'Town Hall Party'. He went on to become a well respected session musician and songwriter and died in 1988.[1]

Jim's Like Him is an interesting a cappella number, with Ralph twisting his lines old time gospel fashion, and Jim periodically doing an old-time field 'holler'.

Ralph (I think) plays clawhammer on the closing track Who Thought The Railroad Wouldn't Last.

Jim later appeared with Ralph guesting on I Feel Like Singing Today on the Merlefest 2008 CDR, and co-produced the Cracker Barrell Man Of Constant Sorrow CD in 2014.

  • Ralph Stanley: vocals
  • Jim Lauderdale: guitar, vocals
  • Jack Cooke: bass
  • James Price: fiddle
  • James Alan Shelton: lead guitar
  • Steve Sparkman: banjo
  • Ralph II Stanley: guitar

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
I Feel Like Singing Today
02:08
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Jim Lauderdale
A-2
You'll Find Her Name Written There
03:04
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Harold Hensley
A-3
Maple On The Hill
02:35
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Gussie L. Davis
A-4
Fly, Lovebird Fly
02:21
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Frank Dycus / Jim Lauderdale
A-5
Joy, Joy, Joy
02:23
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Robert Hunter / Jim Lauderdale
A-6
Like Him
02:48
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Jim Lauderdale
A-7
I Wish Today Could Be Tomorrow
02:00
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Ollie O'Shea / Jim Lauderdale
A-8
Another Sinner's Prayer
02:15
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Jim Lauderdale
A-9
Highway Through My Home
02:07
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Jim Lauderdale
A-10
What About You
03:07
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Jack Anglin / Jim Anglin / Johnnie Wright
A-11
This World Is Not My Home
03:07
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Brumley & Sons
A-12
Harbor Of Love
02:35
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

C. Stanley
A-13
I Will Wait For You
03:07
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Robert Hunter / Jim Lauderdale
A-14
Who Will Sing For Me
02:24
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

John Thomas Ely / Carter Stanley
A-15
Who Thought The Railroad Wouldn't Last
01:59
c1999
I Feel Like Singing Today

Jim Lauderdale
Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover Booklet Inner Pages
CD Tray CD Tray Photo by Liz Tormes

[1] Neil V. Rosenberg & Charles Wolfe's 'The Music Of Bill Monroe' book (p.97)

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

Ralph II ralph2.com

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