(Rebel REB-CD-1755) 1999
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.
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A-1 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
02:08 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Jim Lauderdale |
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A-2 |
You'll Find Her Name Written There |
03:04 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Harold Hensley |
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A-3 |
Maple On The Hill |
02:35 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Gussie L. Davis |
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A-4 |
Fly, Lovebird Fly |
02:21 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Frank Dycus / Jim Lauderdale |
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A-5 |
Joy, Joy, Joy |
02:23 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Robert Hunter / Jim Lauderdale |
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A-6 |
Like Him |
02:48 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Jim Lauderdale |
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A-7 |
I Wish Today Could Be Tomorrow |
02:00 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Ollie O'Shea / Jim Lauderdale |
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A-8 |
Another Sinner's Prayer |
02:15 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Jim Lauderdale |
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A-9 |
Highway Through My Home |
02:07 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Jim Lauderdale |
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A-10 |
What About You |
03:07 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Jack Anglin / Jim Anglin / Johnnie Wright |
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A-11 |
This World Is Not My Home |
03:07 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Brumley & Sons |
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A-12 |
Harbor Of Love |
02:35 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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C. Stanley |
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A-13 |
I Will Wait For You |
03:07 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Robert Hunter / Jim Lauderdale |
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A-14 |
Who Will Sing For Me |
02:24 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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John Thomas Ely / Carter Stanley |
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A-15 |
Who Thought The Railroad Wouldn't Last |
01:59 |
c1999 |
I Feel Like Singing Today |
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Jim Lauderdale |
[1] Neil V. Rosenberg & Charles Wolfe's 'The Music Of Bill Monroe' book (p.97)